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Obama in Seoul: My Problem with Foreign News

I used to be the foreign editor of In These Times in Chicago. I didn’t particularly enjoy the job, because I have never been fascinated with the world outside of the United States. I am not sure whether I could find Honduras or Liberia on a map, and I ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Mao Zedong,  Washington Post Company,  New York Times Company,  George W. Bush

Fort Hood and Terrorism (Continued and Continued)

In my discussion with Jason Zengerle about Nidal Hasan’s killing of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, I insisted that “we need to know a little more than we do” before branding him a terrorist. Well, we still don’t know enough, and will certainly know ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Taliban

Penn Palaver

I was struck by the question that Mark Penn asks in his column, “Turning to the left or the center?” What would public relations executive and former Clinton advisor Penn, who claims to represent the political center, have to say about the choices ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Mark Penn,  Taliban,  Eric Cantor

Response to my Anti-Statism article

I got an email from an old friend who is an official of an international union, and besides that, one of the smartest people I know. It's a response to my article  on anti-Statism in America that has been on the site today. I am reproducing it for its ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama

Labor Today

So what, you ask? I don’t have the figures in front of me. If this were not a blog, I’d be off to the library, and I appreciate any corrections from readers. But I think that if you had a breakdown of the unionized workforce in 1908 or 1924, you’d find ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Anti-Statism in America

Anyone who has followed closely the debate over national health insurance has probably noticed some peculiar inconsistencies in Americans’ attitudes toward the legislation. A Pew Poll released on October 8 found “steady support” for specific elements ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Washington Post Company,  Barack Obama,  Thomas Paine,  Thomas Jefferson

Today's Contest

When I clicked on Amazon this morning to find out about a book, I was informed that a book was about to appear that was tailor-made for my tastes: Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin. When I clicked on the button to “fix this recommendation,” ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Saul Alinsky

A bit of a bit more on Fort Hood

Perhaps in responding to Jason, I wasn’t clear about why I don’t think we have grounds yet for calling Nidal Hassan’s act an act of terrorism. Let me try once more, and let me make one thing clear: I am not ruling out that it was, and I don’t require ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fort Hood and terrorism (continued)

Jason Zengerle argues that if one calls Scott Roeder’s killing of abortion doctor George Tillman a terrorist act, then one has to call Nidal Hassan, who perpetrated the Fort Hood massacre, a terrorist because his actions were “motivated, in part, by ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Scott Roeder,  Al-Qaeda

Debating the healthcare bill

I had a friend visiting me this weekend who had fervently backed Barack Obama for President (against the “devil-woman” Hillary), but who now thinks Obama has betrayed his followers – most recently by agreeing to disastrous compromises in the health ...

From JOHN B. JUDIS, The New Republic,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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