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Al's ClearMichael Kinsley
In defense of Janet Reno


Been There, Done ItMichael Kinsley
The Republican Medicare plan pushes managed care---where have we heard that before?

Ben Yellen's Fine MadnessMichael Kinsley
How one man with a mimeograph machine threatens to bring down all the big growers and c...

Big Babies (1995)Michael E. Kinsley
Vintage Whines
2 Reviews, 2 Readable


A Capital Gains PrimerMichael Kinsley
The last, the very last, argument who'll ever have to read against cutting the capital ...

Capital PainMichael Kinsley
Would George Bush please give up already?

Cockburn the BarbarianMichael Kinsley
Lessons in journalistic ethics from a veteran of an infamous Israeli junket.

Comment: Let Them Eat LaptopsMichael Kinsley
Newt's new entitlement: hard drives for hard times

Comment: The Flat Tax SocietyMichael Kinsley
The real beneficiaries aren't who they're supposed to be


Comment: The Intellectual Free LunchMichael Kinsley
Everyone has an opinion, but some people shouldn't

Confessions of a BuckrakerMichael Kinsley
In insisting that journalists should never get paid for speeches, the ethics police hav...

The Conflict-of-Interest CrazeMichael Kinsley
We've replaced the search for truth and trust with an obsession over conflicts of inter...


Creative Capitalism (2008)Michael Kinsley
A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders

Curse of the Giant Muffins (1987)Michael Kinsley
And Other Washington Maladies
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

Department of Disputation: Share the HealthMichael Kinsley
Who wants socialized medicine? An analysis of competing health-care reforms produces so...


Dept. of Disputation: The Spoils of VictimhoodMichael Kinsley
Is affirmative action flawed? Of course, but not as deeply as the new white-male case a...

Dept. of Disputation: The Ultimate Block GrantMichael Kinsley
Liberals and conservatives are fighting over welfare. Maybe it's time to reconsider a p...



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The Double Felix (Review) Michael Kinsley
The Twenty-Year Century, by Felix G. Rohatyn
- The Twenty-Year Century by Felix G. Rohatyn

The Easy ChairMichael Kinsley
Waiting for Lenny

The Easy Chair: Dressing DownMichael Kinsley
Why my friends don't wear alligators on their shirts

The Easy Chair: Equal Lack of OpportunityMichael Kinsley
Affirmative action for the 1980s

The Easy Chair: Mental CasesMichael Kinsley
Meet the new legal doctrine of psychological pollution

The Easy Chair: None Dare Call It CommercialMichael Kinsley
Public broadcasting faces life

The Easy Chair: Nuclear Holocaust in PerspectiveMichael Kinsley
There's more bad poetry than good policy in the antinuclear movement

The Easy Chair: Reagan's Industrial TonicMichael Kinsley
Does anybody around here believe in capitalism?

The Easy Chair: The Grandfather Clause SocietyMichael Kinsley
As opportunities narrow, the spirit of "I got here first" is sweeping the country

The Easy Chair: Who's the Fairest of Them All?Michael Kinsley
When Reagan looks in the mirror

The Harvard Brain Trust
Eating Lunch at Henry's - Eating Crow at Mike'sMichael E. Kinsley and John Averill
The Cambridge 13 bid farewell to their old colleague, Henry Kissinger, and take up rel...

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English Lessons (Review) Michael Kinsley
For all her faults, Maggie Thatcher has done some good and revolutionary things for Eng...
- The Iron Lady by Hugo Young


For IndexingMichael Kinsley


The GOP's Tax ScamMichael Kinsley
The Republican elitist obsession with capital gains---even to the point of jeopardizing...

High on the Hog, IMichael Kinsley
The Mystery of the Free Lunch

High on the Hog, IIIMichael Kinsley
Triumph of the Will

High on the Hog, IVMichael Kinsley
Gifts of the Nation

High on the Log, IIMichael Kinsley
Pelf and Petroleum

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It Pays To Be Nice (Review) Michael Kinsley
The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod
- The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod






Keep Trade FreeMichael Kinsley

The Latest MoosMichael Kinsley


Life AlteringMichael Kinsley
How the debate over stem cells changes the debate over abortion

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Life and Letters: True Lies (Review) Michael Kinsley
What's the truth and what's the spin? Co-authors Mary Matalin and James Carville may be...
- All's Fair by Mary Matalin, James Carville, and Peter Knobler

Long SentenceMichael Kinsley
A close reading of Pat Robertson

The MallMichael Kinsley
Receiving psychotic dictators: an etiquette quite

The MallMichael Kinsley
Blah blah newsmag remake blah blah


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Meet Bob Forehead (Review) Michael Kinsley
Washingtoon, by Mark Alan Stamaty
- Washingtoon by Mark Alan Stamaty

Money TalksMichael Kinsley
Is Clinton's crisis the fault of the rich?

The Moral Myopia of MagazinesMichael Kinsley
Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like being subsidized.


No-Fuss BudgetsMichael Kinsley

Now You're Thinking Like a LawyerMichael Kinsley and Charles Peters
Lawyers already run the country. Now the public interest movement wants to create a WPA...



On the HillMichael Kinsley
Compromising Positions


Outer Space and Inner Sanctums (1976)Michael Kinsley
Government, Business, and Satellite Communication
1 Review


Please Don't Remain Calm (2008)Michael Kinsley
Provocations and Commentaries

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Political Booknotes (Review) Michael Kinsley
Small World, by David Lodge
- Small World by David Lodge

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Political Booknotes (Review) Michael Kinsley
The Floating Island, by Garrett Epps
- The Floating Island by Garrett Epps

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Political Booknotes (Review) Michael Kinsley
The Reagan Detour, by Richard Reeves
- The Reagan Detour by Richard Reeves


PreferencesMichael Kinsley


Remembering WFBMichael Kinsley
Star

The Gospel Reconsidered
The Rich Don't Serve--So What?Michael Kinsley
The National Service Chain Gang.


Sorry, No ChangeMichael Kinsley
Who lost health care reform? You did

"Special Interests" & American PoliticsIrving Howe and Michael Kinsley
An Exchange by Irving Howe and Michael Kinsley

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Tension and Release (Review) Michael Kinsley
Wealth and Poverty, by George Gilder
- Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder

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The Thinker (Review) Michael Kinsley
To Renew America, by Newt Gingrich
- To Renew America by Newt Gingrich

TRB From WashingtonMichael Kinsley
George on My Mind

TRB From Washington: Electioneering EtiquetteMichael Kinsley
Some rules for honest politicking

TRB From Washington: Let Him Have ItMichael Kinsley
Play a dirty trick on George Bush. Give him the line-item veto

TRB From Washington: To Be or Not To BeMichael Kinsley
Is there a constitutional right to die?

TRB: 128 SkidooMichael Kinsley
George Bush's bottomless cynicism

TRB: 178 and CountingMichael Kinsley
There he goes again

TRB: A Liberal Tax CutMichael Kinsley
Your taxes just went up again. It's time for Democrats to do something about it

TRB: A Rat's PatootieMichael Kinsley
The Republican party and Oliver North

TRB: Accounts ReceivableMichael Kinsley
How some of the rich, courtesy of George Bush, are not paying any taxes at all

TRB: African TimeMichael Kinsley
One man, one vote, one swimming pool

TRB: Air On an L StringMichael Kinsley
Is Bill Clinton a liberal?

TRB: Altman is InnocentMichael Kinsley
Those Whitewater meetings: What was wrong with them?

TRB: Any Volunteers?Michael Kinsley
How to solve our foreign policy mess

TRB: Apparatchik CityMichael Kinsley
Nobody here but us non-dissidents

TRB: Arafat and HitlerMichael Kinsley
The perils of changing your mind

TRB: Are Companies People?Michael Kinsley
Does Time Warner deserve freedom of speech?

TRB: Art HeistMichael Kinsley
Daniel P. Moynihan's masterpiece from the museum of tax breaks

TRB: Arts and CraftsMichael Kinsley
George Bush at his worst

TRB: Ask a Silly QuestionMichael Kinsley
Are amateurs or pros better journalists

TRB: Back from the FutureMichael Kinsley
The dubious lament of Generation X

TRB: Bad ChoiceMichael Kinsley
Abortion and health care reform

TRB: Balancing ActMichael Kinsley
Don't believe the folks who say they want a balanced budget

TRB: Bart for PresidentMichael Kinsley
What Hollywood has figured out that the Democrats don't get

TRB: Between Bork and RoeMichael Kinsley
One final bit of Democratic rethinking

TRB: Bias and BaloneyMichael Kinsley
Journalists are Democrats. So what?

TRB: Big Tent BluesMichael Kinsley
Republicans for Choice? Who's kidding whom?

TRB: Buchanan AgainMichael Kinsley
Is he an anti-Semite?

TRB: Call Me IrresponsibleMichael Kinsley
Darman, Moynihan, and the politics of responsibility

TRB: Can We Stand Pat?Michael Kinsley
Why Buchanan won't be president

TRB: Cheap ShotsMichael Kinsley
Measles, Bush, and other preventable diseases

TRB: Clinton's TroubleMichael Kinsley
What you got wrong while I was away

TRB: Cocktails for TwoMichael Kinsley
Should pregnant women drink?

TRB: Colonel of TruthMichael Kinsley
Or, the Rhodes scholar as a social type

TRB: Corporate LuddismMichael Kinsley
How businesses stifle technological progress

TRB: Costume JewelsMichael Kinsley
The phony case against the luxury tax

TRB: Cover-UpMichael Kinsley
Reagan's hair as a metaphor for the '80s

TRB: Crazy But HarmlessMichael Kinsley
Why Japan's self-denying national character can't hurt us

TRB: Cui BonoMichael Kinsley
Who wins from the new oil crisis?

TRB: Curious GeorgeMichael Kinsley
From Whitewater to the ridiculous

TRB: Dead IraqisMichael Kinsley
Oh, who cares?

TRB: Dead to IronyMichael Kinsley
Bush's Oklahoma act

TRB: Death Warmed OverMichael Kinsley
The art of the obit headline

TRB: Democracy TheaterMichael Kinsley
It's Parliament vs. the House of Representatives on C-SPAN. And the winner is...

TRB: Democratic MistakesMichael Kinsley
Will they blow it? Let me count the ways

TRB: Desert StormMichael Kinsley
Clarence Thomas in Saudi Arabia

TRB: Design Your OwnMichael Kinsley
How to read the tax-cut menu

TRB: Dink Stover At WarMichael Kinsley
What's all this about Bush's WASP values?

TRB: Do the Wrong ThingMichael Kinsley
Democrats should be stinkers at the budget summit

TRB: DocutraumaMichael Kinsley
Tuning into the war on TV

TRB: Dodge-DodgerMichael Kinsley
What Clinton should say on D-Day

TRB: Dollars for ScholarsMichael Kinsley
What exactly is the principle George Bush thinks he is enforcing?

TRB: Don't Be PushyMichael Kinsley
The case against chutzpah

TRB: Dream Come TrueMichael Kinsley
Why congress deserves a balanced budget amendment

TRB: EndgameMichael Kinsley
My case for Bill Clinton

TRB: Essential ReadingMichael Kinsley
OK, OK, I'm reading as fast as I can

TRB: Et Tu, "Bugsy"?Michael Kinsley
The true scope of the Hollywood conspiracy

TRB: Executive SweetsMichael Kinsley
Why CEOs get more as companies earn less

TRB: F-TroopMichael Kinsley
Anatomy of a Clinton smear

TRB: Fear of '92Michael Kinsley
The Democrats' dilemma

TRB: Fear of ChangeMichael Kinsley
Making the dollar great again

TRB: Feelings of WarmthMichael Kinsley
Dear Victor: lose the hump, okay?

TRB: FlatlinerMichael Kinsley
Jerry Brown's brain-dead tax plan

TRB: FortysomethingMichael Kinsley
Can the Clintonites make war?

TRB: Free-Lunch Foreign PolicyMichael Kinsley
A political syndrome spreads


TRB: Good BookMichael Kinsley
Simon and Schuster's latest coup

TRB: Goodbye to BerlinMichael Kinsley
The advantages of a dull capital

TRB: GOP RxMichael Kinsley
A look at the Republicans' health care plans

TRB: GoretaxMichael Kinsley
A second chance for Democrats to seize the tax issue

TRB: H.R.P., R.I.P.Michael Kinsley
An elegy for Ross Perot

TRB: Happy FamiliesMichael Kinsley
The case against 'values'

TRB: He'll DoMichael Kinsley
Qualified love song of a desperate Democrat

TRB: He'll Do TooMichael Kinsley
A mild case for Perot

TRB: Hello, HillaryMichael Kinsley
TRB's Law of Scandal strikes again!

TRB: Heroes and WimpsMichael Kinsley
Would Lamar Alexander climb a tank?

TRB: Holy Guacamole!Michael Kinsley
Bush does something right

TRB: Hortonism ReduxMichael Kinsley
Here we go again

TRB: House PoorMichael Kinsley
The insanity of upping the price of real estate

TRB: InadmissibleMichael Kinsley
Crime and the exclusionary rule

TRB: Invidious DistinctionsMichael Kinsley
Supporters of affirmative action need to ask whether the plums being divide should exis...

TRB: Iranamok FinaleMichael Kinsley
Absolution through obfuscation

TRB: It's Your FaultMichael Kinsley
America's crisis of followership

TRB: KeiretsuphobiaMichael Kinsley
The latest bogey from Japan

TRB: Kuwaiti FriedMichael Kinsley
U.S. chickens come home to roost in the Gulf

TRB: Law and OrderMichael Kinsley
Look who's big on international law

TRB: Lazy He Calls UsMichael Kinsley
Why Americans actually work too hard

TRB: Liar or Boob?Michael Kinsley
The choice Clarence Thomas leaves the Senate

TRB: Life TermsMichael Kinsley
If the fetus's legal life begins at conception, women who have abortions, by pro-life l...

TRB: Log Cabin FeverMichael Kinsley
A tall tale from Forbes magazine

TRB: Mad Social Scientists?Michael Kinsley
Why the Clinton health plan is so complicated

TRB: Martyr ComplexMichael Kinsley
Anti-religious bias? Are you kidding?

TRB: Message: I Don't CareMichael Kinsley
Toward a theory of Bushism

TRB: Ministerial ResponsibilityMichael Kinsley
Why Secretary of State James Baker should resign

TRB: Minority RulesMichael Kinsley
One person, one vote isn't the only acceptable solution for South Africa

TRB: More to ReadMichael Kinsley
Where liberalism's head is at

TRB: Moynihan ReduxMichael Kinsley
Social Security tax cut, round two, and an idea to improve it

TRB: Mr. Fix-ItMichael Kinsley
A time-honored Democratic Party tradition, from Clark Clifford to Ron Brown, is still g...

TRB: Noblesse ObligeMichael Kinsley
It's better than nothing


TRB: Oh, Grow UpMichael Kinsley
Bounced checks aren't worth worrying about

TRB: Only CorrectMichael Kinsley
The most-read column in The New York Times

TRB: Ox-Goring FestivalMichael Kinsley
Democrats and Republicans have trouble with their new lines

TRB: P.C. B.S.Michael Kinsley
The hysteria about political correctness

TRB: Pants on FireMichael Kinsley
Paula, Bill and the lying game

TRB: Pear PressureMichael Kinsley
The real politics of "change"

TRB: Perestoika BailoutMichael Kinsley
Reasons to throw money at the USSR

TRB: Pete's PlanMichael Kinsley
An investment banker's challenge to liberals

TRB: Picky, PickyMichael Kinsley
Is disingenuousness a war crime?

TRB: Picky, PickyMichael Kinsley
The phony arguments of school choice nuts

TRB: Pluralism Gone SourMichael Kinsley
Congressman Chris and Mr. Rauch

TRB: QuackMichael Kinsley
Dr. Bush's Rx for health care

TRB: Quality TimeMichael Kinsley
Malcolm Baldrige fell off his horse for this?

TRB: Quayle's CaseMichael Kinsley
The vice president versus the lawyers

TRB: Race UnconciousMichael Kinsley
Quoats: the president blinks

TRB: Read My Lips AgainMichael Kinsley
No New Taxes II: The Horror Continues

TRB: Reagan's HeirMichael Kinsley
The legacy belongs to Bush---he's earned it

TRB: Reality CheckMichael Kinsley
Ethics and the 'perceptions' dodge

TRB: Red PerilMichael Kinsley
Doctors with AIDS? Please find something else to worry about

TRB: Regrets OnlyMichael Kinsley
Youthful indiscretions with marijuana are fine, so long as you're very sorry

TRB: Remote ControlMichael Kinsley
Why your cable TV bills keep going up

TRB: Revisionist HistoryMichael Kinsley
Bush's most audacious fiction

TRB: Santa ClauseMichael Kinsley
Prop 13 and the Grandfather Clause society

TRB: Screen TestMichael Kinsley
Mammograms and health care reform

TRB: Second OpinionMichael Kinsley
Health care hysteria: a guide

TRB: Second ThoughtsMichael Kinsley
Liberals, guns, and the Constitution

TRB: Serves Him RightMichael Kinsley
How Bush brought Perot on himself

TRB: Sharing Bad TimesMichael Kinsley
Why can't the pain be spread around?

TRB: Skin CancerMichael Kinsley
It's the white thing. You wouldn't understand

TRB: SmokendersMichael Kinsley
No more ifs or ands about butts

TRB: Snow JobsMichael Kinsley
More statistical bullshit from Bush

TRB: Song of TsongasMichael Kinsley
The first candidate's 85-page thesis

TRB: Sour GrapesMichael Kinsley
Consumer boycotts are getting out of hand

TRB: Sour MilkenMichael Kinsley
The case against the case against the case against the junk bond king

TRB: Spare ChangeMichael Kinsley
The politics of impossibility

TRB: Spin SicknessMichael Kinsley
Clinton's most persistent problem

TRB: Spinach, PleaseMichael Kinsley
The president-elect's first big test

TRB: Stars and SnipesMichael Kinsley
Oh no! Here comes Old Glory again

TRB: Stat WarsMichael Kinsley
Are the poor paying more taxes or aren't they?

TRB: Stay MadMichael Kinsley
Bush is accusing Clinton of waffles?

TRB: Stealth ReformMichael Kinsley
Democracy can only do so much

TRB: Stock ResponseMichael Kinsley
What's with the securities transfer tax?

TRB: Strout's LawMichael Kinsley
The man who made this column

TRB: Taking ExceptionMichael Kinsley
Take the Taking Clause---please

TRB: Taking ResponsibilityMichael Kinsley
Shouldering the credit for what happened in Nicaragua

TRB: TaxonomyMichael Kinsley
How often did Clinton and Bush really raise taxes?

TRB: Tea and PunditsMichael Kinsley
Notes from the Bush election

TRB: Ten-Year ItchMichael Kinsley
Sizing upt the famous 1981 tax cut

TRB: The B ListMichael Kinsley
You can rule the world---what's left of it

TRB: The Case for BushMichael Kinsley
Um, er, uh...

TRB: The Corn Is GreenMichael Kinsley
High-fructose baloney from ADM

TRB: The Criminals LobbyMichael Kinsley
Bush turns soft on crime

TRB: The Envelope, PleaseMichael Kinsley
My mail from the Heritage Foundation

TRB: The Last ResortMichael Kinsley
A case for the balanced budget amendment

TRB: The Manet IllusionMichael Kinsley
Maybe it's time for museums to start selling their masterpieces

TRB: The Nefarious EastMichael Kinsley
A Policy hustler's rap on Japan

TRB: The People's ChoiceMichael Kinsley
The "populism" racket

TRB: The Prune BookMichael Kinsley
You call these plums?

TRB: The Right OneMichael Kinsley
A soak-the-rich plan from the Heritage Foundation

TRB: The Voters in ChainsMichael Kinsley
Congressional term limits? No thanks

TRB: The War Powers WarMichael Kinsley
Can Bush fight Iraq without Congress?

TRB: The Wichita CaseMichael Kinsley
If George Bush doesn't want the courts to protect the right to an abortion, he should b...

TRB: Trading PlacesMichael Kinsley
Republicans and NAFTA

TRB: Trial by JuryMichael Kinsley
There's got to be a better way

TRB: Twilight ZonesMichael Kinsley
Why Jack Kemp's pet solution for the troubles of the inner cities doesn't make any sense

TRB: Two Japanese MythsMichael Kinsley
Don't believe everything you hear about Japan's lower taxes and easy access to capital

TRB: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want YouMichael Kinsley
The ballad of the Woodstock Brigade

TRB: Unilateral DisarmamentMichael Kinsley
Trade war is tiresome. Let's end it

TRB: Untried and TrueMichael Kinsley
The best Rx for the economy is the one we've been ignoring for a decade

TRB: War and PowersMichael Kinsley
Bob Dole's right on this one

TRB: When is a Tax?Michael Kinsley
Some metaphysical reflections

TRB: Where Are They Now?Michael Kinsley
Did the anti-Washington Reagan administration leave Washington?

TRB: Who Killed Communism?Michael Kinsley
Don't all speak up at once

TRB: Who Killed Vincent Foster?Michael Kinsley
Suspect #1: The Journal

Political Book Award Co-Winners
Walter Lippmann And the American SycophancyMichael Kinsley
The saga of a supplicant.



What Brennan WroughtMichael Kinsley
Liberals can applaud the retiring justice's politics while questioning his jurisprudence



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