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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Petraeus Follows His Own Book

In my article on the surge I stupidly forgot to include a comment about the…

Most Awkwardly Self-Revealing Book Review Sentence. Ever.

Typed off in a Guy Fawkes mask:  Anyway, how many writers would dare to sacrifice…

Harris v. Sullivan

This one's almost too easy. If you've ever run the sink over a Quaker rice…

Azzam al-Amiriki

So you're the homeschooled child of Jewish hippies. You grew up on a goat farm…

Russia’s “Managed Democracy”

I really can't think of anyone I'd rather read on the post-millennial White tsar and…

The Surge Can Work

Virtually everyone agrees that the president’s proposal for Iraq is doomed to failure, a hopeless…

The Real Highlight of the Golden Globes

… Wasn't Sacha Baron Cohen's memoir of man-Bagatov love, but the look on Zach Braff's…

Bad Noose

It takes John Burns over five minutes in his audio recounting of the opprobrious hangings…