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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Vlad The Emulator

We should probably file this observation under Ironies of History: The bloody mire of Mongol…

Say What?

Gordon Gecco never said, "Greed is good," although even if he had, it would have…

Crooked Timber and Me

My previous post has sparked its own little feeding frenzy in the Comments section of…

Crooked Timber Snipes Back

Well, it only took them a week. Apparently, we don't live up to the stinting…

Tim the Grey Knight

Don't know if you've been following the dust-up between Pascal Bruckner and Tim Garton Ash…

A Better Shakespearean Sonnet for Valentine’s Day

With all due respect to Robert Pinsky, it’s not often that Shakespeare’s glorious sequence to…

Tehran Calling

Juan Cole is usually the first to ominously indicate that more things change, the more…

Westminster (AKA, Wook At Da Puppiez!)

Here's how it works with Dad: I get drunken phone calls any night of the…