Hillary and The Hollowness of Irish America
Print. October 12th, 2009Hillary Clinton will not, after all, be the White House’s special envoy to Northern Ireland.
Obama’s Style and Substance
Print. October 12th, 2009Obama has moved fast to resuscitate the old, nobler vision of America.
If only both sides could lose
Print. September 20th, 2006We should spend less time practicing ‘tolerance’ of some religions and more time questioning all of them.
Most Recent
New Update: Salon, New Republic, Irish Times
Print. August 23rd, 2010It’s time for another update of assorted articles from recent months.
Judging from the reaction it received on Salon’s website, I suspect this profile of former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson may be the most-read article I’ve written in quite a while. Although the profile appeared back in May, The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf gave his own [...]
Recent articles: Salon, Daily Beast, Guardian
Print. April 21st, 2010I have a piece up on The Daily Beast today seeking to explain the appeal of Nick Clegg, the leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, to an American readership. The article’s appearance reminded me that I have written several pieces for U.S. media in recent months, and not referenced them here.
For Salon, I wrote about Charlie [...]
New Year, New Update
Print. January 7th, 2010I updated the website for the first time in a while today, with a selection of articles from the last months of 2009. It is impossible within the site’s current framework to post everything I write, so, under the “Most Recent” heading on the Print page, I have posted a general grab-bag, including: an Irish [...]
The Case For Obama’s Nobel Prize
Print. January 6th, 2010The committee has a tradition of selecting winners as much as an act of encouragement towards their goal as a celebration of the miles already travelled.
Nick Hornby book review (WSJ)
Print. January 6th, 2010“Juliet, Naked” is a rich and perceptive novel, with a keen sense of the lives led by the trio at its core.