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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Muppets Without Borders

Forget Thomas Friedman's theory that McDonald's is a better guarantor of pacifity than the UN.…

Thus Spake the Chief Spook

Even before 9/11, I didn't much like the CIA (I've always been more of a…

Iraqi Attitudes According to Region

I don't know what's worse: Seeing any kind of plebiscite out of postwar Iraq that…

Whither the Iraqi Kurds?

Now that Kurdistan is once again being targeted for suicide-bombings, what are the chances that…

A Coup For Military Blogs

As Phil Carter, a Iraq war veteran, wrote in Slate about the Pentagon's wrongheaded new…

Elect Bill Clinton’s Wife

The era of dynastic politics continues apace:

Petraeus Against Torture

I'd meant to post this last week, but got a bit caught up in the…

Naomi Klein on Wolfowitz

Now I knew this would be interesting: The more serious lie at the center of…