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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Obama’s Foreign Policy

Sen. Obama has so far been the only candidate to offer a serious presidential playbook…

Russia Threatens the Czechs

Here's the definition of bad diplomacy: One country tells another country to defer a national…

Esfanidari Released

It only took 100 days and her mother's apartment as bail. I can't wait to…

Smoking Means Great Literature

Two things to make you cry: Watching a dog shiver in the rain, watching an…

Radical Poet

In his memoir A Margin of Hope, the great Irving Howe named two key influences…

Suing Sidney Blumenthal

Well, I mean to say, really. When I solicited satiric obituaries on the political life…

So We’ll Go No More A-Rovin’: A Contest

I like to partake of a little mental scrimmage called "What Will Hendrick Hertzberg Write?"…

Cursed Are The Speechmakers

Darkness. Light … harm/evil … challenge … enemy … defeat and destroy. Eyes open ……