The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
With ¡Obámanos!, his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning. The first time Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker political writer, met...
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
REG [at a meeting of the People’s Front of Judea]: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us'ATTENDEE: Brought peace?—“Monty Python&#8217 . . .
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The book "One Million" by New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg is dotty. It's got thousands of dots -- tens of thousands, 5,000 dots per page for 200 pages. For the math-impaired, yes, that's exactly a million. The dots aren't doing...
Visualgui.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Hendrik Hertzberg: [Obama] may have saved the world from a second Great Depression and all that, but the jobless rate keeps on climbing, the planet keeps on heating up, Guantánamo keeps on not getting closed, and roadside bombs keep on exploding. He’s had eight whole months, and he still hasn’t signed a comprehensive health-care bill. [...]
SocraticGadfly (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
At The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg uses that epithet for a great summation of Obam’s political career . There is no god and I am his prophet.
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
If President Obama really had to get a gift postmarked Scandinavia this month, he would probably, on the whole, have preferred the Olympics. At least at the Olympics the judges wait till after the race to give you the gold medal. They don’t force it on you while . . .
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Hendrik Hertzberg peers across the Atlantic and nearly breaks into "Das Deutschlandlied." I feel for Hertzberg. It must be difficult to live amongst the kind of rubes and morons who don't...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
An excerpt from a short post on capital punishment by Hendrik Hertzberg: Now that we are learning more about what “lethal injection” sometimes entails, it doesn’t look so nice. Perhaps this is an area where we could learn from our Chinese friends. Their method of execution, I’m convinced, is the kindest of all: a pistol shot [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI NYT Book Review THE AUDACITY TO WIN The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory By David Plouffe Illustrated. 390 pages. Viking. $27.95. ¡OBÁMANOS! The Birth of a New Political Era By Hendrik Hertzberg 341 pages. The Penguin Press. $25.95. One year after Barack Obama was voted into the White House, does the public want to relive...
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Comic StripUnmaskedby November 2, 2009 Text Size: Keywords ; ; ; ; ; ; To enlarge an image, click on panel. Share: To get more of The New Yorker's signature mix of politics, culture and the arts: More In This Section Hendrik Hertzberg, Jane Mayer, and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama’s first year, at the New Yorker Festival. anticipates the end of the recession. : Stylish 3-D glasses. : The case...
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... get more of The New Yorker's signature mix of politics, culture and the arts: More In This Section Hendrik Hertzberg, Jane Mayer, and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama’s first year, at the New Yorker Festival. anticipates the end of the recession. : Stylish 3-D glasses. : The case against Brett Favre. : The Chamber of Commerce suddenly shrinks. : A supercharged panorama of Beijing. : Steve...
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... get more of The New Yorker's signature mix of politics, culture and the arts: More In This Section Hendrik Hertzberg, Jane Mayer, and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama’s first year, at the New Yorker Festival. anticipates the end of the recession. : Stylish 3-D glasses. : The case against Brett Favre. : The Chamber of Commerce suddenly shrinks. : A supercharged panorama of Beijing. : Steve...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... for problems caused by regulation and cronyism. Conor Friedersdorf can’t believe how wrong Hendrik Hertzberg gets her in the New Yorker . Find out for yourself next Wednesday when Burns and Heller speak at a Cato Book Forum, “The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand.” If you can’t get to Washington, watch it on the web .
Bad Attitudes (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
H/T to Hendrik Hertzberg for pointing me to this great musical comment on America's crippled and corrupt health care system:
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Pow! Bam! Aaargh! The Republicans have been taking a whippin' from the Nobel folks for a decade now. The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg (erstwhile stalkee of Bill O'Reilly) writes that "the choice has always been, as a former chairman of...
