Eric Alterman’s Alternate History
One of the first things you learn as a journalist is that the biographies of writers which appear on the backs of their books, at the end of their articles, or on websites are not written by editors or...
View ArticleThe Passion of Eric Alterman
In a typically frothing and self-aggrandizing post, Eric Alterman lashes out at any and all enemies: Speaking of me, I often have trouble deciding which attacks on me in the blogosphere demand...
View ArticleThe Most Unfair Blog Fight in History
Readers may recall an argument several weeks ago on the blogosphere between Oliver Kamm and Eric “frequent lecturer and contributor to virtually every significant national publication in the United...
View ArticleTo Fraser (And Flashman)!
I would like to join my contentions colleague Sam Munson in hoisting a tumbler of single-malt to salute the passing of George MacDonald Fraser, the crusty old Scot who produced a brilliant dozen of the...
View ArticleWhat Will Obama Do About His Pastor?
Barack Obama must have been dreading this for a long time. ABC News has uncovered several examples of unadulterated anti-American fury in the printed sermons of Obama’s Chicago pastor, Rev. Jeremiah...
View ArticleWEB EXCLUSIVE: Hiroshima, Obama, and Truman
Today’s ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima had something new: the presence of the U.S. ambassador to Japan. Never before had America sent an official...
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