New York’s Chait Quietly Defended Charter Program That Benefited His Spouse’s Employer
It’s getting harder for New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait to argue he’s exempt from ethical disclosure norms when writing about education.
Why Jon Chait Can’t Read
New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait calls it an “absurdly lax standard” to count pundits as being pro–regime change if they endorse regime change.
Wishful Thinking in Defense of Democrats’ Pro-Business Politics
Jonathan Chait’s argument is that the voters who switched from Obama to Trump had conservative social views—so if Democrats need to do anything to win in 2020, they should move to the right on race and immigration policy.
MSNBC Does Not—and Never Can—Play the Same Game as Fox
Gabriel Sherman’s New York magazine piece on cable news (10/3/10) has an important insight into the Fox News‘ success: Fox‘s rightward flanking maneuver, capturing a disenfranchised part of the audience, was only part of its strategy. The news, especially political news, wasn’t something that happened. It was something that you shaped out of the raw […]
NY Magazine: ‘Enablers’ of High Finance Self-Pity
Describing his previous “ill-starred tenure at New York magazine” as having been “a crash course in the staggering unselfawareness of Manhattan class privilege,” Chris Lehmann (The Awl, 4/21/09) now applies his insight to the magazine’s recent “Rage of the Rich” issue, in which Gabriel Sherman “spells out with admirable, if analytically bankrupt, clarity” what Lehmann […]
