Jamie Malanowski

But what Charen has really done is the rhetorical equivalent of showing the world these liberals’ driver’s license photographs–she’s chosen the worst quotes in the worst context and ignored the rest. Obviously people had opinions that turned out to be wrong, and some were wrong a lot. But there are worse things in life than […]

First, there’s the genius business. The authors make the case that Rove is a highly talented operative who pretty much does nothing but win. They present him single-minded and highly prepared, with a shrewd eye for political talent, and an admirably ruthless willingness to go for the jugular. They give us a good long look […]

The other reason it’s an unfortunate title is, of course, that the recent election was about many things–President Bush’s popularity, the war on terrorism, a revulsion for the Democrats that periodically seems to grip the electorate, or perhaps just a subliminal realization that repudiating Republican candidates meant repudiating Bush, which most voters weren’t willing to […]

McCain’s new book, again written with Salter’s help, is Worth The Fighting For. Sad to say, it does not quite measure up to its predecessor. The reason is obvious, and beyond his control: He simply doesn’t have as good a story to tell. This book is about his service in government. Rare indeed is the […]

Inside the Cult of Kibu and Other Tales of the Millennial Gold Rush, by Lori Gottlieb and Jesse Jacobs, aims to tell the story of those years in the words of the people who were out there in the trenches, drinking the Kool Aid by the vat. Gottlieb was the editor of Kibu.com, a Web […]

Why, then, she would ever write a book is beyond me. Words just sit there. They don’t move. They don’t go away. The author’s media-genic advantages and her theatricality are nullified. Her speed of thought and speech are useless. The pages accumulate, revealing every inconsistency, every mistake, every bad habit, every crutch. If I were […]

Like Bill Clinton, Cramer characterizes the Baby Boomer trait of wanting to prove to everyone that he’s smarter than they are, and at the same time be loved for it. It is an elusive objective. Cramer, who on tumultuous trading days has been known to post his penses on his Web site up to 12 […]

There is at least a small way in which every person who read Patrick Buchanan’s memoir Right From the Start, regardless of political persuasion, regrets that Buchanan has never become president. In that book, Buchanan, with oblivious candor, proudly explains how he brawled his way through his Catholic Washington, D.C., boyhood, up to and including […]

You remember the Internet–not the helpful tool most of us use every day for a host of tasks, but Internet the Idea, the belief system which held that the Internet was a transformational force that was going to completely remake the society in ways so far-reaching that most humans could not yet begin to comprehend […]