Left-Leaning Male Pundits Heart Huckabee Left-Leaning Male Pundits Heart Huckabee
Have you noticed how liberal white male reporters get crushes on right-wing male candidates? For years John McCain had Democratic and even left men swooning at his feet--a strai...
Dec 5, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Norman Mailer R.I.P. Norman Mailer R.I.P.
    Last month I was privileged to be part of Georgetown University's day-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night,...
Nov 21, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
The Atheist’s Dilemma The Atheist’s Dilemma
Atheists versus imams? Can't we have more choices?
Nov 15, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Dowd v Clinton, Chapter 3465 Dowd v Clinton, Chapter 3465
Is Maureen Dowd obsessed with Hillary Clinton or what? Last week, she complained that Hillary spoke "girlfriend to girlfriend" to women voters while refusing to share the pain...
Nov 7, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
David Horowitz, Feminist? David Horowitz, Feminist?
The oppression of Muslim women is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. If only they felt the same about other women on earth.
Nov 1, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
With Facts on Our Side With Facts on Our Side
Faced with a choice between facts and theology, antichoicers choose the latter every time.
Oct 18, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
How Many Times Can a Country Lose its Innocence? How Many Times Can a Country Lose its Innocence?
I've been thinking recently about the many ways in which we conceal from ourselves the truths we know we know. At the Shocked, Shocked conference at NYU on Saturday -- the sub...
Oct 8, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
How Different Are the Top Three Dems? How Different Are the Top Three Dems?
Clinton, Edwards, Obama: behind the branding, they're more similar than you think.
Oct 4, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health
With the exception of John Edwards's plan to eradicate poverty, the concerns of the poor seem to have fallen off the progressive agenda for 2008.
Sep 20, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Don’t Like Noam Chomsky? Try Alan Greenspan Don’t Like Noam Chomsky? Try Alan Greenspan
Remember Michael Ignatieff's "Getting Iraq Wrong," the New York Times Sunday Magazine essay in which he explained that he supported the war in Iraq because he was a sensitive...
Sep 20, 2007 / Katha Pollitt