-
economics
Andrew Sullivan Would Blog For Free, So Why Do You Dumb Kids Insist on Getting Paid?
Lovable crazy blogger Andrew Sullivan is not worried about our new digital-age medieval society. He thinks it is probably a good thing that no one is getting paid to write words, anymore. In fact, he would write for free! More » -
revolution
Iran Going Totally Batshit For The Second Weekend In A Row
Here we go again - Iran's utterly losing it as you read this, and it's way, way worse this time: there's a potential world leader ready for martyrdom, shooting deaths, more rioting, and a possible national strike. More » -
trendwatch
Server Trouble? Blame Iran
Is your company's Web server hosed again? Give your beleaguered sysadmins and programmers a break and blame hackers. Preferably Iranian hackers. It's all the rage! Just ask The Atlantic and Boing Boing. More » -
hacks
Andrew Sullivan Claims His Blog Is Under Attack
Andrew Sullivan, who has been engaged in tireless online coverage of the events in Iran, says he is under a "digital attack," presumably from pro-Ahmedinejad forces in Iran or elsewhere. More » -
foreign affairs
The Revolution in Iran: A Recap
If you're like most Americans you spend your summer weekends tuning out the rest of the world. In the event you turned on your computer today and wondered, "What the hell is going on in Iran?"—Here's a summary.
More » -
talking heads
What Are the Pundits Saying About Sonia Sotomayor?
Today's big story was Barack Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of David Souter. Predictably, America's punditry had plenty to say about this. We've sampled some of the prominent voices on the left and the right and compiled them for you.
More » -
party report
Lessons You Learn at a 'Future of the Media' Party
It's pretty late to post this, but last night The Atlantic held the only sort of media party left: a discussion about the future of media with television producer Michael Hirschorn and blogger Andrew Sullivan. More » -
Media Crack
Investigations Don't Require Ink, or Actual Investigation
In your temporarily de-Nolanated Friday media column: Hearst learns that investigations don't require ink, a lefty New York radio station gets locked out, Bill Keller's irony goes unappreciated, and Andrew Sullivan gets some help. More » -
-
media elite
No One Spilling Details on Secret Obama Meetings
Won't anyone tell us anything interesting about Obama's two picnics with the commentariat? No, because no one fun was invited. More » -
celebrities
No One Can Quit Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin is a lot like that Simpsons Halloween episode where the advertising characters terrorize Springfield: if we stop paying attention to her, she can't hurt us. But no one's able to let her go. Neither the liberals who are alternately amused by and horrified of her and the conservatives split between idolizing and reviling her can let her just go back to Alaska in peace. The Times is still looking into the clothes thing. Olbermann still replays every public statement she makes every night while demanding to know why people still pay her mind. And guess who's still obsessed with her magical pregnancy? More » -
endorsements
Hitch Joins All-Star Roster of Anti-McCain "Smart" Republicans
Noted Bush-supporting former Trotskyite Christopher Hitchens has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president! In Slate today, the beloved British alcoholic raves about how Obama isn't a sad old man, like McCain, or an offensive joke, like Sarah Palin. Hitch, like a Nader voter, declares that there are no substantial differences between the candidates, but McCain's temperament is too unstable, and Obama's is much more reassuring. This is basically the argument of a number of noted conservative intellectuals who have, in recent weeks, either endorsed Obama, resigned themselves to an Obama presidency, or simply unendorsed McCain. As the intellectual conservatives abandoned Bush, now they find themselves abandoning the GOP.
More » -
family matters
'Most Popular One-Man Political Blogger In the World' Demands Palin Baby Truth!
Andrew Sullivan, wow. Just wow. The gay British conservative who over the course of a decade went from proud publisher of racist pseudo-science just for a larf to virulent Obama supporter has spent a month obsessing over everything Sarah Palin has ever said and done and even maybe done. So. He's written some stuff on the bizarre circumstances of the birth of Trig Palin. He defends it (reasonably in our estimation) by arguing that Palin's pro-life position and the politicization of her familial circumstances (special needs kids, son in Iraq, family on stage at convention) makes inquiry into her pregnancy relevant. Sullivan sent this crazy email to the McCain campaign, asking for comment: More » -
bloggers in peril
Blogger Shot in DC
Yikes. Media Consortium blogger Brian Beutler was shot in Washington DC last night, a block away from my old apartment. Or pretty much directly in front of Andrew Sullivan's apartment. He is expected to make a full recovery. And next time, thanks to the Supreme Court, he will be able to shoot back. [DCist, Photo] -
mugging
Please Politely Welcome Jeffrey Goldberg to the Internet
Atlantic contributor Jeffrey Goldberg started his very first blog this week, with a charmingly naive post mostly about how he knows nothing about blogging but does sit near uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan. "This is almost certainly a mistake," he begins, and it turns out he's 100% right. When the New York Observer's media blogger Matt Haber (the forgotten Gawker Alum!) devoted a post yesterday to basically announcing the existence of Goldberg's blog and needling Goldberg for his initial boneheaded support of the Iraq War, Goldberg blew up with rage. Haber's post was a mugging, he says. Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey. We'll show you what a mugging is. More » -
videuhoh
Chris Hitchens' "Lesbian" Moment With Andrew Sullivan
The great fun of Christopher Hitchens is that the commentator so often says things in formal settings you'd expect to hear around the dinner table after many hours of wine and whisky. The Vanity Fair columnist usually pulls this off, in part because a ribald manner is now expected of him, but there's always the risk of pushing it too far, as in the following clip from MSNBC's Tim Russert. Just after Hitchens jokes with pundit Andrew Sullivan to get on with his point and "don't be such a lesbian," he takes a regretful look toward his navel, apparently realizing he may have just put his foot in it. Ah, Hitch, your public expects nothing less. If MSNBC gives you a hard time, the first ten rounds are on us. Video and transcript (via Media Matters) after the jump. More » -
ad nauseum
Last Thing On Comments, I Swear
Like you, I'm over this whole commenting, what it says about you, what it says about me and our Internet society at large thing. But there's a Wall Street Journal article on the subject, and it's my beat. Atlantic writer Andrew Sullivan, whose website does not have commenting, recently ran a poll about allowing them. The results will shock you. (How's that for an incentive to click the jump?) More » -
lay off the pot already
The December Atlantic will have bear-blogger Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama as its cover. Can you hold your breath until then? Let's hope Sully is as right on Obama as he's historically been on everything from "the end of AIDS" to publishing excerpts from The Bell Curve in The New Republic to his participation in a religion that hates him to his misreadings of Susan Sontag to supporting the war in Iraq to linking the 2001 anthrax mailings somehow to the war to endorsing Bush in 2000! [Folio] -
gay logrolling in our time
Andrew Sullivan, Theatre Critic
Later that night, at the Vanity Fair party held at Christopher Hitchens' house, The Transom pried loose a few wedding details from Mr. Sullivan's fianc , Eric, an actor (last name withheld at Mr. Sullivan's request): It's going to be a small affair, mostly family, to take place in Provincetown, Mass.
More » -
britney spears
Gossip Roundup: Spears To Become A Simpson?
- Though Jessica Simpson's rep denies it, rumors are swirling that her dad Joe wants to svengali up Britney Spears. [R&M] More »
-
david bradley
David Bradley To Form Suspiciously Gay Cadre Of Extremely Sadistic Super-Bloggers
David G. Bradley, the owner of the Atlantic Monthly, today announced in the Washington Post that he seeks to "recruit a cadre of uber-experts to form what he calls the Atlantic Society, 'where we will find 300 of the smartest human beings across the main intellectual terrains we're likely to cover and to go out and ask them, would they be essayists for the Atlantic?'" And if they decline the opportunity, he slits their throats on the spot. We knew things were going to get deliciously freaky over there after they hired that perv Andrew Sullivan away from Time. More » -
andrew sullivan
Andrew Sullivan's New Look
After addled former-con blogger Andrew Sullivan's one-year contract was up at Time last month, he hopped his buns over to the Atlantic, and had his illustration redone. More » -
mickey kaus
JoeJournalist Had Better Be James Fallows, Because We're Getting Pretty Goddamned Tired Of This Story
So, JoeJournalist: We figured this scintillating story had run its course but, unfortunately, no. In a segment on the consistently incendiary BloggingHeads.tv, suspected self-aggrandizer Mickey Kaus claims that he knows who the solipsist is, and that it isn't Andrew Sullivan (or Kaus). Mickey won't give up the name, but he does volunteer that the journalist in question is "an important figure in the New America Foundation." More » -
michael kinsley
JoeJournalist.com: Could One Of These Men Be JoeJournalist? Yeah, Maybe.
This morning we asked you to help us identify the mystery journalist who had the effrontery to start his own website in the early days of the Internet. While the general consensus remains fixated on Andrew Sullivan, there are a few other ideas out there. We present them after the jump. More » -
michael kinsley
JoeJournalist.com: World's Most Boring Guessing Game Continues
Okay, so that Kinsley piece: We'll start you off with the "blind item" in question:The first person I knew who had a Web site of his own was a fellow Washington journalist. This was when many journalists were still just getting into e-mail, but the URL for this Web site quickly circulated around town and around the world. Why? Well, we were all impressed by the technological savvy. But we were absolutely astounded by the solipsism. What on earth had gotten into Joe (not his real name)? This was a modest, soft-spoken, and self-effacing fellow, yet his Web site portrayed him as an egotistical monster. Or so it seemed at the time. All of the elements that struck us as obnoxious maybe eight years ago no longer seem that way. In fact, they are now virtually required for any writer's Web site. The Web address, of course, was his name: JoeJournalist.com. It's hard to recapture why that even seemed pretentious. But it did. Then there was his deadpan list of books he'd written and awards he'd won. And quotes from other journalists about how wonderful he is.
So who's the mystery journalist? More » -
media
Media Bubble: Here Is The Internet
- We think it's kind of tacky to mock a Parkinson's patient for writing a doddering, fogeyish column about the Internet. So we'll let Wonkette do it. Anyway, our guess as to the mystery journalist is Kaus. [Slate] More »
-
headlines
CNN Covers All the Gay News
In fairness to the daycare center, they only got freaked out when Andrew Sullivan couldn't provide a good reason for his visit. More » -
gay
In Sullivan's Defense, His Gaydar Was in the Shop for Repairs
Heterodox homos just say the darnedest things, don't they? Case in point: Time's blogboy Andrew Sullivan on BlackBook EIC Aaron Hicklin's move to Out magazine: More » -
andrew sullivan
Andrew Sullivan Makes Sweet, Bloggy Love to Stephen Colbert
Blogstar Andrew Sullivan — who's now posting his blog on Time.com — took his funny accent to The Colbert Report last night, where pressing issues were deftly tackled: More » -
media bubble
Media Bubble: Right-Wingers Like Judy. Imagine That.
• Is Judy Miller now a right-wing hero? Wait, what was she before the war, then? [NYM] More » -
media
Journo-Jabbing
A quote of the day from Jesse Kornbluth: "No ideas and the ability to express them—that's a journalist." —Karl Kraus (1874-1936)(—MG) More » -
media
Night Life Pretty Much Dead: Why Was This Man Smiling?
We were struck by the opening lines of Andrew Sullivan's most recent Sunday Times column: More » -
media
Andrew Sullivan, a Scissor Sister?
Our telegenic sister site (which is currently being manned—har har—by Choire Sicha) clears up a mystery that's been bugging fans of gay music and gay punditry lately: Is Andrew Sullivan in The Scissor Sisters? More » -
media
Andrew Sullivan: Good Blog to All That
It's with a heavy heart that we report that pundit and headgear aficionado Andrew Sullivan is retiring from blogging. For the most part. More » -
media
Wake Up, Little Sully
Our nerdy sister site's guest blogger pointed us towards a terrifying piece of video that shows us exactly what pundit Andrew Sullivan wears to bed every night. No, not SpongeBob SquarePants jammies: a face mask that helps him breathe. More » -
media
Andrew Sullivan In Foreclosure In Provincetown
From the The Provincetown Banner, page 23, Nov, 18, 2004. More » -
vanity fair
Definition of a failed journalist
Blogging makes Vanity Fair's In & Out list. Blogger is In — but only as a new term for a failed journalist. Or, in Andrew Sullivan's case, a new term for a writer out of favor with Howell Raines at the New York Times. -
christopher hitchens
Next Thursday: Hitchens and Sullivan
This is a must-see. Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan, and others, discussing Orwell. And discussing Orwell is a synonym for... More » -
kurt andersen
Space Pussy
Kurt Andersen, on Andrew Sullivan's blog: "I derive some tiny but real pleasure in knowing, for instance, as a result... More »
- 1
1-38 of 38 for "Andrew Sullivan"
























