Jamie Malanowski

Month: August 2007

HE SHOULD KNOW

If you want to know why we should have stayed out of Iraq, perhaps you should ask an expert—someone known for his steadiness, sound judgment, and knowledge of military and intelligence issues. Someone, perhaps, like—Dick Cheney! This interview ran on C-SPAN on 1994. Clearly Dick Cheney knew what he was talking about. Dick Cheney should …

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MUST SEE

The Lives of Others, one of our favorite films from this past year, has just come out on DVD. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the movie is about the cheapening of life in a police state, and, not so incidentally, how simple acts of courage can inspire others to take a stand. …

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STUCK

It’s very hard to sit through No End In Sight (see the trailer here), the new documentary by Charles Ferguson about the American misadventure in Iraq, and not feel deeply dismayed. In a series of interviews with soldiers and diplomats and policy makers who desired nothing more than to fulfill the president’s goal of free …

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ON THE BLOOMBERG NETWORK

Had a terrific interview on Bloomberg Night Talk with Mike Schneider on August 7. We discussed the book, satire, art imitating life, and working at Playboy. I’m thrilled that they invited me. Me, holding forth on Night Talk. Mike Schneider and me on Night Talk. I love being framed with financial data.