Brendan Nyhan (Free subscription) | yesterday
James Fallows claims in The Atlantic that "moments" from televised general-election debates have "figured in the ultimate outcome" in the presidential elections of 1960, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2004: There have been nine series of televised general-election...
Photo Dude (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
“Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it’s beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It’s touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.” James...
Gen Kanai weblog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
One of my favorite reporters, James Fallows, schools NYT columnist David Brooks: David Brooks from Chengdu: my lord. Brooks knows not a thing about 'Asia' or China or whatever he wrote about in that op-ed. Makes Brooks look the fool and neophyte in China. (I'm testing ScribeFire.)...
tonari no shibafu (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The last line of the post: Take a little time and look around, David. The parts that don't fit what you theorized before arriving are actually the most stimulating. On my radar thanks to Gen. Journalism
Maoxian (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
James Fallows wrote this the other day: “Empty seats [at the Olympics]. This truly is amazing. A few marquee events have drawn full houses, like last night’s 100m sprint final. But much of the time, huge swaths of seats have sat empty. This is unfortunate, given how many people, Chinese and foreign, would love to see [...]
China Law Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
James Fallows telling us not to worry about the plethora of "I love China" decals we are seeing on so many Chinese people's faces: History is full of examples of "rising national powers" getting the big head, feeling arrogant, and doing dangerous things. That's not the main feeling I get here. It's negative Chinese nationalism, like what appeared after the protests over the Olympic torch...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The American Spectator: Before this Saturday, many analysts were predicting that the fall's presidential debates would be a wipeout, with Barack Obama conjuring the spirit of the young John F. Kennedy and John McCain imitating the aging Bob Dole. In a recent article in the Atlantic, James Fallows declared that McCain "will look and sound old and weak next to Obama." But if this weekend's...
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
By Philip Klein Before this Saturday, many analysts were predicting that the fall’s presidential debates would be a wipeout, with Barack Obama conjuring the spirit of the young John F. Kennedy and John McCain imitating the aging Bob Dole. In a recent article in the Atlantic, James Fallows declared that McCain "will look and sound [...]
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Rick Warren has made transcripts of last night's faith forum available here . CNN has video links to some questions and answers. Ryan Corsaro observes that John McCain repeatedly violated Warren's admonition not to answer with his stump speech, a tactic that served McCain well. James Fallows doesn't expect McCain to do as well when under pressure in a debate. Adele Stan compares the...
Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
James Fallows goes above and beyond the call of duty: Recently I did what no sane person would: I watched the entire set of presidential primary debates, in sequence, like a boxed set of a TV show. In scale this was like three or four seasons’ worth of The Sopranos. [...] I won’t contend that Beijing, over a [...]
China Law Blog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Will Lewis over at Experience Not Logic has an interesting post up riffing on my post wondering why China cannot produce an elite point guard, nicely weaving in the David Brooks/James Fallows/John Pomfret discussion on individualism versus collectivism. (I always love it when someone elevates one of my posts to a higher intellectual plane, figuring at least something good has to rub off...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Kevin Drum points us to this very interesting James Fallows article about the Presidential debates and while Fallows, as always, writes a great insightful article about the debates, he ignores the elephant in the room - the Media's hatred of Hillary Clinton. I think there are two particularly revealing excerpts of the article that demonstrate what Fallows ignores - the...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
James Fallows, in his Atlantic cover story on debates, writes: John McCain is not a good debater, not even by comparison with George W. Bush. Having been in Washington for decades, he knows many issues in detail. Having been in Washington for decades, he often overexplains those details, as Bob Dole did against Bill Clinton in 1996. The exception is the whole field of economics, where...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
At The Atlantic, James Fallows smartly assesses the two candidates' strengths and weaknesses as debaters. His big question is why then-state Sen. Barack Obama was so strong, in Fallows' view, in his debates against Ambassador Alan Keyes during his 2004...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
James Fallows got worked up over David Brooks'?? ignorant musing about Chinese and Asian collectivity. The product was this excellent paragraph, which follows part of Brooks'?? words. If you show an American an image of a fish tank, the American will usually describe the biggest fish in the tank and what it is doing. If you [...] [Full story...]
