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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Tomorrow, Joseph Braude plucks the desert rose petals off multicultural Kuwaiti music. And on Thursday…

Today’s Moment of Unintentional Eloquence

"To know Jerry Ford was to know a Norman Rockwell painting come to life." —…

Who Controls Afghanistan?

Who reads only the Koran? We do! We do! Who drops walls on gays and…

How Does Saddam’s Offing Play In Suleimaniya?

The Kurdistan Observer offers a terse editorial about the premature execution of the man who…

The End of Saddam

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after And the poetry he invented was…

The Anti-Dawkins “Thunderbolt”

This is the most generous tribute an atheist ever paid to religion, or more specifically,…

Jerry Ford Joins That Peaceful End Zone In The Sky

"Sickle-cell Armenia" was almost Monty Pythonish, but I have to wonder why "work ethnic" never…

How The New Yorker Picks Cartoons

And yet Steve Martin's a "Shouts & Murmurs" contributor… Remnick picks up a cartoon of…