Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsleyis an American political journalist and commentator. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire. Kinsley has been a notable participant in the mainstream media's development of online content...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth9 March 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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are unlikely to devote a continuous half-hour or more to any one site the way you might read a traditional paper magazine in one sitting.
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The equal protection clause was a handy tool because just about anything the government does or doesn't do can be framed as treating people unequally.
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The most embarrassing thing (in the Times' package) is that (Miller's editors) told her to stop writing about that but she kept writing about it, anyway.
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The Internet beat TV and print to this story, and ultimately forced it on them, for one simple reason: lower standards.
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This agreement with America Online will introduce millions of additional people to the fastest way to get smart about the news and events of the week.
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That seemed like an insult, ... I guess it was. Even after that, I thought he maybe put it badly and he didn't mean to be sending out these go-away vibes. But it turns out he put it exactly right.
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A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
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The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
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There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
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One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
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What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
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So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.