Michael Weiss

Michael is an editor of Nextbook and a contributing editor of Jewcy. His work has appeared in Slate, Gawker, New York, Democratiya, Reason, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, City Journal and Standpoint. His blog is Snarksmith.

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Inside Max Weber’s Head

Leo Strauss had major problems with Weber's breezy dismissal of the philosophical Ought in favor…

A Blacklist The Left Could Use

If Joy Division and Sisters of Mercy had a kid, it would sound like Interpol.…

Liberals On A Boat

The ship runs on Max Blumenthal's partisan rage. But hey, the last time Richard Dreyfuss…

Whoops

Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean,…

Sam Stumbles a Bit

It's very hopeful for someone who trafficks in rational skepticism to make the following forecast:…

Pasternak and the Spooks

When Roy Jenkins, one of the four founders of the Social Democratic Party of Britain…

Nick Cohen Pile-On

Didn't take long for Nick's book to set les bien-pensant hopping. Norm Geras anatomizes one…

Ahmadinejad: “Neoconservative”

Clearly the most arresting paragraph in Laura Secor's dispatch from Iran: No elected leader can…