Jonathan Chait
- : Jonathan Chait is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has worked since 1995. He has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Slate, Time, American Prospect and other publications.
Responding to More Criticism
I would like to thank Will Wilkinson for joining us from the Cato Institute, and for taking the time to offer up such a lengthy reply. I’m sorry he’s so confused, and while I fear another reply may only confuse...more »
Posted on September 14, 2007 1:35 PM
Responding to Criticism
Let me respond to a couple of the criticisms raised so far. First, Ross Douthat, while very kindly praising my book, accuses me of “imputing the worst of motives to [my] opponents” in my summary for the book for this...more »
Posted on September 11, 2007 3:10 PM
Class War and The Big Con
Fellow book clubbers, Thank you all for taking the time to discuss my book. Let me start by explaining what it’s about, because I’m not sure anybody has actually summarized the thesis. The Big Con tries to explain how...more »
Posted on September 10, 2007 8:34 AM
Democrats Already Have Ideas
Unfortunately, I think we may be talking past each other. I was trying to make a normative point, not a descriptive point. I'm not arguing that ideas play no role in how politicians use their power. What I'm arguing is...more »
Posted on June 23, 2006 11:59 AM
Ideas? Feh.
Ken, thanks for inviting me here. Do ideas matter? Of course they do, in the sense that it matters a great deal whether people who hold political power are animated by good ideas or bad ones. But I think people...more »
Posted on June 21, 2006 11:39 AM
The Bush Three-Step
Every once in a great while, somebody writes something so perfectly prescient, something that so brilliantly explains the world around us, that we must go back and appreciate it just to bask in the author's sheer virtuosity. In this case,...more »
Posted on September 12, 2005 10:38 AM
