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Source: www.latimes.com --- 62 days ago
REPUBLICANS have been in a bit of a funk lately. Voters (especially the young ones) are increasingly identifying themselves as Democrats, and current projections give Obama the edge on Nov. 4 with the GOP losing seats in both the House and the Senate. Come Nov. 5, Republicans may be doing a lot of soul-searching. ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 65 days ago
Reihan Salam is co-author of "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream," reviewed today in the L.A. Times. In one of his posts at The American Scene, he writes about the anxiety... ... Source: www.npr.org --- 44 days ago
As Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn. for the Republican National Convention, Talk of the Nation continues its series on the significance of this moment in the nation's history. Two young conservatives, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, explain what this election means to them. ... Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 41 days ago
Deep down, I think we all want, or should want, to be like Reihan Salam to some extent. Or at least to dance like him. He really is one of the most interesting and likable writers on the scene today,... ...
Source: www.paidcontent.org --- 30 days ago
Between the tight political race and the chaos on Wall St., Forbes.com has picked the right time to revamp its Opinions Channel . The channel, unveiled today, is structured around four main topic categories: Business and Economics, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Culture and Society, and Politics. Forbes.com has also added 16 new columnists, who will be writing weekly columns for the channel. Some of the new names include Reihan Salam, who will offer a look at Republican politicans after Bush in "Grand New Party" on Mondays and Nouriel Roubini, economist from the Stern Business School at NYU, who has gained notice for calling the mortgage lending crisis in advance will continue offer more pessimism in his aptly named column, "Doctor Doom." Also Forbes magazine Publisher Rich Karlgaards's daily tech blog "Digital Rules" will continue to run, along with his new video blog "Talk Back." The site will be overseen by former FT and WSJ editor Tunku Varadarajan as Opinions Channel editor, reporting to Forbes.com Managing Editor Carl Lavin. Join us for EconMusic Sep. 23 in London featuring a Mobile Music panel with Nokia Music’s Tom Erskine, Sony BMG’s Ian Henderson, Vodafone UK’s Tom McLennan and O2’s Julian Zmood discussing the exciting future of this sector. Register at http://contentnext.com/econmusic . ... Source: instapundit.com --- 35 days ago
Reihan SALAM on how the Republicans still don't get the Web. ... Source: rossdouthat.theatlantic.com --- 40 days ago
Not if you read the conservative media ... and especially not if you listened to Reihan and me on Fresh Air ! ... Source: rossdouthat.theatlantic.com --- 41 days ago
I'll have more to say about Sarah Palin's speech at some point tomorrow - I saw it live, from the press stand in St. Paul, which was perhaps not the ideal venue from which to judge its television impact - but based on the reactions I've heard and read to date, let me just reiterate the advice that Reihan offered to Democrats when she became McCain's pick for veep: Do not attack her. Stop referring to her as a just a small-town mayor and a neophyte governor who's unqualified to be President; in fact, stop referring to her at all. Attack John McCain, John McCain, and John McCain. Attack him all day, all night, and on weekends too. Behave as though Sarah Palin does not exist. Pray that the media will find some Palin-related scandal even more shocking than the perfervid theories aired this week (they'll be looking for one, no doubt), and in the event that they fail to do so, do not under any circumstances allow yourselves to be drawn any deeper into a debate (which the McCain campaign plainly wants to have ) over the relative qualifications and accomplishments of Barack Obama and the Republican vice-presidential nominee. Nothing that's happened this week has changed the fact that it's going to be very, very hard for the Democrats to lose a race between Obama and McCain - and as a result, the Obama-Biden ticket has vastly more to gain from changing the subject away from Sarah Palin than they do from placing her candidacy, her qualifications ... Source: feeds.portfolio.com --- 30 days ago
Tunku Varadarajan, the former Wall Street Journal opinion czar who ditched the paper shortly after Rupert Murdoch clinched a deal to buy it, has a new home. Varadarajan has signed up with Forbes.com, where he's editing the site's freshly-relaunched opinion channel . A staunch right-winger, Varadarajan has brought with him a full roster of conservative and libertarian columnists, including law professor Richard Epstein, Grand New Party co-author Reihan Salam, and former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson. Analyzing politics "from a Democratic perspective" will be strategist Dan Gerstein , though just how Democratic that perspective is could be debated: Gerstein was in charge of Joe Lieberman's 2006 re-election campaign, when he ran against his own party as an independent. Varadarajan hasn't said publicly why he left the Journal , where he was an assistant managing editor, but Media Mob noted upon his leaving that he had been a fierce critic of Murdoch, whom he called "a master practitioner of the corporate kowtow." Since he left, he's been a contributing editor at the Financial Times . Related Links Awkward Questions for...'FT's' John Ridding Robert Thomson Named 'WSJ' Managing Editor Why Murdoch Can Make Money On His Dow Jones Investment ... Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com --- 19 days ago
Reihan is saddened by that state of affairs in South Africa: As Nelson Mandela's deputy, Mbeki played a central role in shaping post-apartheid South Africa. Once regarded as a man of rare promise, he has been a failure, not least... ... Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com --- 34 days ago
Larison tackles Reihan. ... Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com --- 18 days ago
Reihan is fed up: I’m really tired of Barack Obama and John McCain. Seriously. No more. I was telling my persuasive conservative friend the other day that I really wish this election pitted Vladimir Putin against Alvaro Uribe. Because let... ...
Source: www.prospect.org --- 43 days ago
It goes without saying that the absurd selection of Sarah Palin to be John McCain 's running mate is most interesting for what it says about McCain: Impulsive, daring, irresponsible, unable in the end to stand up for himself. But it says even more about the state of the Republican Party. The gleeful exclusion Monday night of the once-popular, now-detested two-term incumbent president suggests a party struggling to shed an old persona and adopt a new one. It was clear from the meager presidential field that the old party was finished: Notable figures from the late '90s and the Bush era, like former Wisconsin Governor and HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson or former Senator Fred Thompson disappeared without a trace, leaving only Mitt Romney , the idiosyncratic McCain, and the social conservative Mike Huckabee -- two of them governors who had no connection to Bush, and one Senator who had simultaneously kept his distance and made his peace with Bush. But for vice president, it was clear that McCain had to find some way to cross over and find the next Republican Party. Because there is no alternative, it had to be some version of the "Sam's Club Republican" agenda advocated by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam that combines social conservatism with some modicum of support for struggling working families. The problem is, there are no actual Sam's Club Republicans. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty coined the phrase but in office has been a standar ...
Source: www.spectator.co.uk --- 9 hours ago
We have an American special in the magazine this week, there’s lots of good stuff in it: Michael Steinberger on why this is a good election for the GOP to lose Dan Gilgoff on how Obama has narrowed the God gap Erica Grieder on life on the trail Reihan Salam on why in such an unconventional year the two candidates have run such conventional campaigns And I look back on the race so far . ... Source: bostonreview.net --- 43 days ago
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party points towards a vast restructuring of the GOP in service of the working class. But can Republicans break with modern tradition and their wealthy benefactors? Lew Daly takes a look at their proposal, where the benefits lie for blue-collar families, and the odds of real transformation in the party. ... Source: www.amconmag.com --- 34 days ago
Reihan asks: So will we stop hearing that Palin “lied” about the Bridge to Nowhere? I’m guessing we won’t. Well, Reihan, we will keep hearing about it because she has been lying. The relevant facts concerning Palin and her false “Bridge to Nowhere” claim are these. As a gubernatorial candidate in 2006, she supported the project and objected [...] ... Source: robertbluey.com --- 29 days ago
Planting the Rightroots - Reihan Salam, The Atlantic In a much-ridiculed speech at the 1996 Republican National Convention, Newt Gingrich hailed beach volleyball as the embodiment of all that makes America great. “A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning,” Gingrich told the puzzled crowd. “No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what [...] ... Find more results for Reihan on RSSMicro.com |
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If you look really closely, you can see Ross Douthat. Photo: Getty Images Every day until November 4, a series of writers and thinkers will discuss the election over instant messenger for nymag.com. For today’s conversation, we bring together Ross Douthat, a senior editor at The Atlantic and author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream , and Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University who blogs at MarginalRevolution.com . His latest book is Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist . Cowen will return tomorrow. T.C: I'd like to start by announcing that my positive or negative remarks about political figures should not be construed as support or lack thereof! R.D.: I'd like to start by expressing my long-running admiration, which has extended into this campaign season, for your ability to blog about contemporary affairs while keeping an impressively cool head! T.C: I watched some of the convention last night — my wife turned it on — and I thought it came across as moribund. Bush smirked and Thompson and Lieberman looked like uninspired ghouls, frankly. People can say what they will about Palin, but one reason Republicans are embracing her is simply because of the quality of the competition. R.D.: Well, I aspire to your level of cool-headedness, but I haven't blogged m ...
Ross Douthat has an interesting post on Sarah Palin and the vision of the Republican Party he (and Reihan Salam) set forth in Grand New Party : The chattering classes are already inclined to treat the Republican Party as a gathering of gun-toting yahoos with too many damn kids; if the GOP made its working-class populism more explicit, adding economic as well as socio-cultural elements, and found standard-bearers who embody the background and aspirations of the Sam's Club demographic more completely than a son of privilege like George W. Bush, the results would lend themselves to even greater hysteria, condescension and demonization than the Republican Party's current incarnation. I think the coverage of Sarah Palin to date - by colleagues I used to respect and publications I normally admire - at least partially vindicates this theory about the reception that would greet the kind of GOP I'd like to see. Last week, I wrote a review of Grand New Party that made two basic arguments. The first is that Douthat and Salam were not, in fact, calling for a simple injection of economic populism. They did not want a Republican Party focused on the working class. Rather, they want to see Republicans focus on the nuclear family, and they understand such a reorientation to be a de facto turn toward the concerns and anxieties of downscale Americans. Much of their analysis is an extended argument about the economic benefits of cultural traditional ...