William Safire

An Interview With David Bromwich About Obama, Afghanistan

Radio Open Source | Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media


David Bromwich seems to me better yet at Obama-watching than at press criticism. He can write with penetration of Barack Obama as an American almost-l...

A Word for the Gifting Season

Amy Hungerford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living


Amy Hungerford

Pretension wrapped in a noun wrapped in a gerund: that's what gifting is. This holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving: something nice you picked yourself, for a particular person.

William Safire

Gershon Hepner | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living


Gershon Hepner

Not a hopeless hypochondriac of history / nor a nabob who was negative and nattered / maven of the English tongue whose wordy mystery / he believed to English-speaking people mattered

Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media


David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

William Safire's Passing and the Decline of American Journalism

Nancy Snow | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media


Nancy Snow

Is the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding?

William Safire Dead: Dies Aged 79

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday a...

Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"

Karl Frisch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

It's clear the conservative press has little interest in ascertaining the veracity of right-wing smears against Sotomayor before advancing them.

Obama's Durban II Critics: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism

Ira Forman | Posted 04.02.2009 | World


Ira Forman

Many of these new nattering nabobs are made up of those Jewish critics of the president who are intent on proving his bad intentions toward Israel no matter what the facts show.

William Safire Sounds Kind Of Racist

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media


Joseph A. Palermo

According to William Safire, Obama's speech was a failure because it was "all too like the collectivist fantasy that opened and closed the Beijing Olympics."

William Safire Blogs About Blogging

Oxford University Press | William Safire | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media


Today the OUPblog is honored to have William Safire author of Safire's Political Dictionary to write about the origins of blogging. Safire began his w...

The Torturous Logic of The New York Times

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Marc Cooper

With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.