Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah
Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author. He is currently the labor policy editor for Politico. Previously he was a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, and before that he was senior editor of The New Republic, where he wrote the "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012 Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.
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Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.
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Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
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Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
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You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
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Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.
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Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
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I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
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In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.
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The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
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There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
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What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.
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Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
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Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?