In a rather alarming article in last week’s issue of The New Yorker, Steve Coll reports on an appearance by General Richard Cody, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Service Committee. “The current demand for our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeds the sustainable supply, and limits our …
December seems like an eon ago, but it’s really been less than six months since everyone was feeling misgivings about the front-loaded primary season we were about to enter. You remember what was being said—that things were going to happen with lightening speed, that the front-runners possessed overwhelming advantages in name recognition and money and …
Last Sunday, at the beautiful Mansion at Rosecliff in Briacliff Manor, BriCA–the Briarcliff Council for the Arts–had its inaugural program. Not only am I happy to be one of the members of the committee, but I am very pleased to say that I was part of the event. An impressive audience of about sixty friends …
Although I have never met Sean Thomas, I have exchanged a lot of email messages with him over the last year, and I now think of him as a friend, or at least a professional friend of the sort that I would happily brag about knowing on Facebook. Sean is the author of Millions of …
On April 1st, The Coup was published in the United Kingdom by Old Street, and today we received our first review. Writing in Telegraph.co.uk, Susanna Yager says “With the American presidential primaries in full swing, The Coup, Jamie Malanowski’s satirical look behind the scenes at the White House, is timely. Vice-President Godwin Pope is fed …
This morning I received this nice note from Kyler Baldwin Nerison, who is the president of the Mu Sigma Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Minnesota: “Dear Mr. Malanowski, I just read the “State of the Union” [a shortened version of the first chapter of The Coup] from the July ’07 Playboy …
Congratulations to Eric Alterman on the publication of his new book, Why We Are Liberals. I was delighted to be invited to a party held yesterday yesterday in honor of Eric thrown by Victor Navasky, E.L. Doctorow and Bill Moyers. It was a kick to meet people I have so long admired. Why are we …
Many of us at the company were proud to join Playboy CEO Christie Hefner at the UJA-Federation of New York’s celebration in honor of Bob Meyers, Playboy’s most amiable honor of President of Media, at a dinner on Tuesday night at the Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. Bob began volunteering for the UJA as a teenager, …
I had a great time at a party that Playboy co-hosted last week in honor of my friend and former colleague at Spy, Daniel Radosh. Daniel has just published an amusing and insightful new book called Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, several chapters of which first saw light of …
The other day on Slate, Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar proposed this novel idea: Not only could Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton share the Democratic ticket, but they could have a kind of alternating co-presidency, where one would serve as president, then resign in favor of the other, who would appoint the just resigned …