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James Traub

• October 25 -- More Republican "Extremism" from James Traub
James Traub contributes another column on Republican "extremism" to the Sunday Magazine.

• August 30 -- "Moderate" Traub vs. "Extremist" Republicans
James Traub again portrays himself as a moderate while attacking Republican extremism: "…it is conservative culture, the culture permeating the Bush administration, that is shot through with Sixties moralism and self-righteousness, the calls to ideological purity, the insistence that the other is not merely wrong but illegitimate."

• May 12 -- Bye Bye Bangladesh Thanks to Bush
Times Sunday Magazine contributing writer James Traub comes up with a list of things to be afraid of in the age of terror.
 

• December 30 -- The Times Remembers Joseph Coors, "Right-Wing Nut"
James Traub marks the death of Joseph Coors Sr., the beer magnate who helped found the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Since Joseph Coors was a right-wing nut as well (and a Bircher to boot), I stuck to Michelob."

• October 27 -- Republican Party "Most Extreme" Ever
Contributing writer James Traub rationalizes the Bush-bashing tomes taking over the best-seller lists: "Our political culture has not been infected by some virus from outer space, or from TV. The carrier was Newt Gingrich….Gingrich brought delegitimation to the core of G.O.P. strategy….The politics of delegitimation worked, at least in the short term. Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in 1994…Today's Republican Party is arguably the most extreme--the furthest from the center--of any governing majority in the nation's history."

• July 7 -- Democrats Are Too Good for the World
James Traub writes: “Maybe Democrats are just nicer, but a more philosophical view is that liberals are committed to, are in fact bedeviled by, ideals about process that do not much preoccupy conservatives, at least contemporary ones. Liberals put their faith in such content-neutral principles as free speech, due process, participatory democracy. Is that too lofty?” Ask a campus conservative about liberal love of free speech, or Robert Bork about liberal love of due process.