Glenn Greenwald on the media’s determination to portray Democrats as elitist:
One other point to note about all of this is that these fixations are as skewed as they are vapid. Barack Obama is an exotic elitist freak because he went to Harvard Law School and made $1 million from his book. Hillary Clinton can’t possibly [...]

Please, enough.

If it’s all the same, I think I will.

This is perhaps the best description of the Clinton pathology that I’ve seen - an almost reflexive reaction to lie, without having the personal courage to take responsibility for the lie. All of which must make Republicans very happy - they’re already portraying this as more warfare between the campaigns, and laughing all the way [...]

David Brooks has really startled me this week - he’s written a piece that fairly nails white shoe professional practice, as well, apparently, as politics, his intended target:
Every society produces its own distinct brand of social misfits, I suppose, but our social structure seems to produce significant numbers of people with rank-link imbalances. That is [...]