PostPartisan Archive: Kinsley

Newspapers Exposed: Publications to Sell Pieces of Themselves

It took about five minutes after the story got out for The Post to announce it was cancelling plans to charge corporations $25,000 for the privilege of sponsoring dinners at the publisher’s house, where their executives could mingle with...

Ideas -- and Jack Kemp

What moves history? Is it the power of ideas? Or is it the power of objective forces like money, for example, deployed behind ideas no more complex or sophisticated than simple self-interest? Jack Kemp, the former Republican congressman and...

Banking for Dummies

If not wiser heads, then at least richer heads seem likely to prevail in the dispute over limits on executive pay in the stimulus package. The Obama version contained some restrictions on pay for top executives of banks that...

Editorials and Double Standards

In withdrawing from consideration for secretary of health and human services, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle had five words of explanation: “I read the New York Times.” The Times this morning published an editorial calling for Daschle to...

For Caroline Kennedy, a Standards Deviation

Caroline Kennedy is being held to a totally invented standard by those who say she is unqualified to take over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat and is only under consideration because her name is Kennedy. Of the past ten senators...

Revisiting One Lawrence Summers Controversy

Opponents of Lawrence Summers for a second turn as Treasury secretary have, of course, brought up his 1991 memo as chief economist of the World Bank, in which he wrote that poor countries need more pollution, not less. The...

Older Entries in This Category »

Why Do Lies Prevail?, Marisa Katz , September 10, 2008

Show Me the Snobs, Marisa Katz , September 10, 2008

Memo to Palin, Marisa Katz , September 3, 2008

Questions for Sarah Palin, Marisa Katz , September 1, 2008

John Foster Dulles Supports Barack Obama, Marisa Katz , August 26, 2008

Remembering Why I Don't Do Conventions, Michael Kinsley , August 25, 2008