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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Michael Totten on the Surge

It's his fifth visit to Iraq and what has he found? Baghdad, the most dangerous…

The NIE and Iran

Even in diplomatic defeat, the president can't get his story straight: “I think it is…

Idiocracy

It's OK. There are Europeans who think America is the world.    

Olmert Warns of “South African-style Struggle”

Olmert alludes to apartheid South Africa in describing Israel and its future. Israel's Prime Minister…

It’s Against, Like, the Geneva Conventions and Stuff

Thanks, Will.  

Mixing Pop and Politics

Morrissey's in trouble over comments he made about immigrants in England: "England is a memory…

Could’ve Been Worse. You Could’ve Been Lead Singer of The Fall

I took in Control last night, Anton Corbijn's bleak and gorgeously shot biopic of Ian…

Natan Sharansky at Commentary

The Soviet refusenik par excellence dropped by Commentary's offices in midtown Manhattan to play chess…