March 2012 Archive

The First Amendment According to Stanley Fish

By Marie Burns: Stanley Fish, who blogs in the New York Times, is a professor of law. He has taken it upon himself to rewrite the First ...

The Times and The Flawed Iran Debate

By Ben Schreiner: It is widely held, and quite rightly so, that an Israeli attack on Iran would be nothing less than disastrous.  This much the ...

Sloppy Comments on Iran’s ‘Nukes’

By Robert Parry: The New York Times and other U.S. news outlets failed miserably to tell the truth before the Iraq War – and they aren’t ...

Crimes Against Peace in the New York Times

By Michael McGehee: Many of you have probably seen this image floating around the Internet: It gets to the heart of the matter, though in terms of ...

David Brooks Argues That If We Were More Moral, We Would Throw Millions More Out of Work

By Dean Baker: Yes, he did. His paean to the late James Q. Wilson is titled, “the rediscovery of character.” It is a discussion of how Wilson touted ...