September 6: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
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Newt thinks Obama's school speech is "good for America," Howard Dean claims Van Jones was "brought down," and George Will takes on the neocons. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Who Killed the Neocons?
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Commentary magazine was once one of the conservative movement's leading voices, but today it's an ideological bunker. And if the first issue under its new editor is any indication, don't hold your breath for a conservative resurrection.
Obama's Sixties Flashback
Why David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest should serve as a cautionary tale as Obama reconsiders the Iraq war-and Iran.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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