Peggy Noonan Found A Wormhole Into Kurt Andersen’s Brain
Monday, May 5th, 2008
That is the only plausible explanation for this fantastical bilge: “And, mirabile dictu, a perfectly postmodern embodiment of compromise between the hard binaries of race and age. He’s both white and black. Born on the very cusp of the baby boom and Generation X, he’s both oldish and youngish. And as a skinny, athletic, gentle-seeming, virtually metrosexual man, he nearly splits the difference on gender as well.” [New York Magazine]
That is the only plausible explanation for this fantastical bilge: “And, mirabile dictu, a perfectly postmodern embodiment of compromise between the hard binaries of race and age. He’s both white and black. Born on the very cusp of the baby boom and Generation X, he’s both oldish and youngish. And as a skinny, athletic, gentle-seeming, virtually metrosexual man, he nearly splits the difference on gender as well.” [New York Magazine]
BREAKING: Some Candidates From Mars, Others From Venus
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
If you’re a pollster forced to call and call and call people and ask them who they want to be president months and months before any of them will get to vote, there’s only one thing to do to assuage the boredom: slice and dice the demographic categories! The Associated Press has published an article that contained way too many numbers for your liberal arts major guest blogger to process comfortably, but here are some nuggets that we’ve been able to extract: MORE »
If you’re a pollster forced to call and call and call people and ask them who they want to be president months and months before any of them will get to vote, there’s only one thing to do to assuage the boredom: slice and dice the demographic categories! The Associated Press has published an article that contained way too many numbers for your liberal arts major guest blogger to process comfortably, but here are some nuggets that we’ve been able to extract: MORE »