Daniel W. DreznerPolitics, economics, globalization, academia, pop culture... all from a tenured perspective.Someone keep Fleet Street away from Bill Clinton- June 4, 2008 So by now everyone knows that Bill Clinton thinks the American press corps is in the bag for Barack Obama. Indeed, I suspect that in their heart of hearts, more pundits and reporters like Obama than Clinton (though, as Chris Matthews pointed out a few weeks ago, what they really like is a never-ending horse race). Still, despite the possible bias on these shores, I can't imagine any major American newspaper having the following lede for their story: Seventeen months after she sat regally in her.http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003842.html It rivals Buckley vs. Vidal, I tell you- June 3, 2008 My latest bloggingheads diavlog is up. This one is with The American Prospect's Ezra Klein. Topic include Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair essay on Bill Clinton, why Ezra hates political science, and the state of public intellectuals in America. Go check it out (warning: the sound quality is a bit erratic)!!...http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003841.html So.... are the Clintons morons- June 2, 2008 James Fallows writes the following about Hillary Clinton's mindset in running against Barack Obama: The Clinton team doesn't worry about hurting Obama's prospects of winning in the fall, because they assess those prospects at zero. Always have. Obama might not win if he leads a bitterly divided party, but (in this view) he was never going to win. Not a chance. He would be smashed like an armadillo in the road by the Republican campaign machine, and he would be just about as ready as the...http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003840.html The New York Times didn't ask me, but then again, that's why I have this blog- June 1, 2008 The New York Times Book Review asked a bunch of writers which books they would recommend to the presidential candidates. Most of the submissions said more about the writer's politics than anything else, though I liked Gore Vidal's response best: I can only answer in the negative: I want them not to read The New York Times, while subscribing to The Financial Times.Well, I'd like the candidates to read this blog during their oodles of spare time, so here are five books worth perusing: 1) David...http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003839.html |