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	The Fly Bottle: Jonathan Chait: Confirmation Bias in One Satirical Lesson
		jonathan Chait's article, "Fact Finders," in the new TNR is one of the most obnoxiously blinkered pieces of self-serving political magazine writing in recent memory.
		Chait's claim is that liberals by and large are empiricists, willing to go where the evidence takes them, while conservatives (loosely and irresponsibly identified with free-market types) are dogmatists who will unaccountably but doggedly cling to principle even after being brought low by data.
		Chait: "Incoherence is simply a natural byproduct of of a philosophy rooted in experimentation and a rejection of ideological certainty." I think he thinks he's helping.
	willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2005/02/jonathan_chait.html (1518 words)

	Untitled
		Jonathan Chait is now a senior editor for the New Republic, a left-of-center political magazine, but it's not that far left.
		Chait's political desires are tied to expectations (and we pray not hopes) of economic disaster and increased danger for American troops abroad.
		Chait chronicles in his article a list of policy disagreements and reveals an abiding aggravation that Bush is perceived as a moderate conservative, while Chait and his friends at the New Republic and the American Prospect view Bush's tax cuts as "radical." However, these remain just policy disagreements.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/392/103676 (949 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 4. Clinton's Bequest Reconsidered. Jonathan Chait and Barry Bluestone. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Jonathan Chait has mistakenly embraced the old theory of "crowding out"—the idea that government borrowing invariably crowds out private investment by driving up the cost of money.
		Chait argues that interest rates are the key to growth and that deficit reduction has kept interest rates low in the late 1990s.
		Chait also suggests that the government's revised statistics indicate there was not much improvement in productivity until after the deficit reduction was in place.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/4/chait-j.html (3394 words)

	David Limbaugh
		As for Howard Dean, Chait correctly argues that Dean is a mistake because he fires up the Democratic base and only the base, which isn't enough to win the election, and Dean's secularism won't play well in an electorate deeply concerned over "cultural" issues.
		Chait also contends that Dean's ability to fire up the base was inconsequential since the base was already fired up.
		But, as Chait points out, she isn't charismatic, and her single accomplishment is to have won a senate race in an extremely liberal state, "where she ran six percentage points behind Al Gore." Chait, in responding to the claim that Hillary's not as liberal as people think, says:
	www.davidlimbaugh.com /mt/archives/2004/11/jonathan_chait.html (751 words)

	Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online
		Chait's piece — as much as it pains me to say it — is actually pretty good.
		Chait's most interesting concession — and a point which has been made by myself and many, many, others in the past — is that the media isn't so much willfully biased as inclined to follow certain story lines.
		Chait does note that some liberals are described as "unreconstructed liberals." Indeed, he says "over the last decade, major newspapers have used the pejorative phrase 'unreconstructed liberal' more than five times as often as they've used 'unreconstructed conservative.'" Therefore, he asks, "Why isn't this disparity evidence of anti-liberal bias?"
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg031502.shtml (1873 words)

	Swanky Conservative » Blog Archive » Jonathan Chait, girlieman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Jonathan Chait’s latest anti-Bush screed is penned out of an apparent insecurity over fitness.
		Chait Dowd-fully references the morning of September 11 with the unrelated fact that the President went running prior to reading to those kids in Florida.
		This disturbs Chait as he gravely opines, “Given the importance of his job, it is astonishing how much time Bush has to exercise.” Well, Jonathan, given the importance of the job, it’s a testament to the president’s leadership abilities that he has managed to surround himself with a competent team that gets things done.
	www.swankyconservative.com /2005/07/22/jonathan-chait-girlieman (546 words)

	Power Line: Best of PL: Chaitred
		What distinguishes Chait is his argument that hating the President is "a logical response to the events of the last few years." In Chait's telling, it is President Bush's fault that Democrats hate him.
		Chait thinks that Bush "sold" the war by "playing upon the public's erroneous belief that Saddam had some role in the September 11 attacks." This claim has become a part of the liberal catechism, but it isn't true.
		Chait entirely avoids any consideration of the possibiltiy that his hatred is symptomatic of underlying liberal sickness by attempting to make the case that the hatred is unique to President Bush.
	www.powerlineblog.com /archives/007469.php (2487 words)

	More Moynihan Malarkey Jonathan Chait
		Jonathan Chait is a staff writer for the New Republic.
		Jonathan Chait is a fellow at the New America Foundation.
		I am a little surprised that Jonathan Chait overlooked the obvious explanation for Sen. Moynihan's having altered course on Social Security--he is not up for reelection this year.
	www.slate.com /id/1005420 (1408 words)

	Liberal Jonathan Chait
		The New Republic's Jonathan Chait writes in response to Dean's flag gaffe: "What's alarming here is not that Dean wants to win votes from guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks.
		But once you think about it, itâs not really that big a deal; a guy like Jonathan is typically talking to journalists and analysts and other outsiders every week, sometimes every day; so this in fact is probably a lower-risk activity, since heâs not being intermediated by someone who might have their own agenda.
		Jonathan said, âIâve already written nine, this is great, every time I think of something that needs saying I can just say it!â I think that guyâs hooked.
	www.stargeek.com /item/291707.html (1703 words)

	When Spinsanity Becomes Comedy
		In his column, "The (over)exercise of power", Chait argues that "Bush has an obsession with exercise that borders on the creepy," and marvels that "given the importance of his job, it is astonishing how much time Bush has to exercise."
		While Chait was ranting about how freaked out he gets by the President’s workout regimen, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been talking up the idea of seven time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong, going into politics.
		Chait continues: "It's nice for Bush that he can take an hour or two out of every day to run, bike or pump iron.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/marsden072805.htm (776 words)

	Fred Barnes wasn't the only big scribe describing strange press conduct.
		Chait says that when Bush released his tax plan last month, some of the scribes agreed to a deal that was straight from the cuckoo's nest:
		CHAIT (paragraph 1): When George W. Bush's campaign leaked his economic plan to the press last week, the lucky recipients were forced to accept a special condition: any reporter who wanted to see it had to agree not to share the details with other campaigns or, more importantly, outside analysts.
		CHAIT (2): The result of this clever leak strategy was an initial wave of reviews that dovetailed with Bush's efforts to cast himself as compassionate.
	www.dailyhowler.com /h010500_1.shtml (1315 words)

	ProfessorBainbridge.com: Jonathan Chait Peddles Shopworn Stereotypes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In light of the substantial intellectual firepower on the right side of the life of the mind, Chait's argument made no sense unless he's arguing that the academy is somehow justified in discriminating against conservatives because of the alleged anti-intellectualism of the GOP.
		In response to a rather silly and dismissive column by Jonathan Chait (one which rolls out all of the usual and tired excuses for the lack of conservatives and libertarians and academia), Stephen Bainbridge points to this article, which confirms...
		A new, fatuous piece by Jonathan Chait in the LA Times recycles the idea that liberalism in academia is a consequence of the relative intelligence and greed, respectively, of liberals and conservatives.
	www.professorbainbridge.com /2004/12/jonathan_chair_.html (2178 words)

	History News Network
		The most important of them come from Michael Berube, my colleague, Tim Burke, Jonathan Chait (registration required), John Holbo (twice), and Adam Kotsko.
		As it is playing out, the debate has flitted from specific grievance to generalizations such that neither side directly addresses issues raised by the other.
		Jonathan Chait's op-ed for the LA Times is slightly more serious, noting the Bush administration's hostility even to conservative academic expertise as one reason academics in general have not been attracted to the Republican Party.
	www.historynewsnetwork.com /blogs/entries/9004.html (637 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - Jonathan Chait: Lapsed Member of the Reality-Based Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		We'd be hard-pressed to find a MORE successful president in the last 50 years, Reagan being the only one who comes to mind who might be superior in policy implementation and boldness to Bush 43.
		In fairness, Jon, Chait is trying to hit a moving target, as to the vote counts...
		Actually, the "fixed list" would still have Chait off by about 40 million, but I find the open-ended question more telling, as it doesn't direct respondents toward a fixed answer.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=477 (811 words)

	History News Network
		Some of you may have seen this Jonathan Chait LA Times piece (requires quickie registration and hat tip to PrestoPundit).
		Of course the notion that conservatives/libertarians are so strongly interested only in their financial well-being and don't care anything about a cleaner environment or better health care, etc., is offensive enough, but we've seen that before.
		What strikes me more this time is that Chait and other lefties tempted to make this argument need to remember the other side of their brain's focus on the "vast right-wing conspiracy," which is full of all of these "corporate-funded" think tanks all over the place.
	www.historynewsnetwork.com /blogs/entries/9000.html (472 words)

	The Haters & the Truth. Jonathan Chait's problems and mine.
		No, the reason Chait's in pain is that he's been pegged with the label of irrational Bush hater.
		Chait responds that he's frustrated that people are ignoring his substantive analysis for why he hates Bush and are instead focusing on the irrational, emotional aspect of his argument.
		The challenge for Jonathan Chait is whether or not he can be clear that his hatred of Bush isn't coloring his analysis of Bush's policies.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1008980/posts (1739 words)

	Independent Sources » Blog Archive » The L.A. Times’ Jonathan Chait: Bush is Unreasonable, And ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		On Russia, Chait complains that after their first meeting in 2001, Bush intuited that he could trust Putin.
		To Chait, this is proof that Bush’s mind was closed on Putin — Bush had decided in 2001 that Putin was trustworthy, period.
		Chait cites this diplomacy-speak to ‘prove’ “facts don’t matter” to Bush and that new evidence has “barely any effect” on him.
	independentsources.com /2005/08/05/the-la-times-jonathan-chait-doesnt-let-facts-get-in-the-way-of-an-anti-bush-piece (886 words)

	From Russia with Love (or Jonathan Chait: Horse's Ass!)
		What Chait convienently avoids noticing is that progressive socialist liberals are the ones that screwed up the U.S. tax system in the first place.
		Because of the failure of communism, socially, politically, and economically, Chait must attempt to disassociate himself and liberal socialists from it, and try to pin a new association (with communism) on conservatives, the true enemy of communism.
		Chait tries to do this by pretending to change sides comparing the Russian progressive system as inferior to the U.S. progressive system.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/656525/posts (979 words)

	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle: Jonathan Chait: Confirmation Bias in One Satirical Lesson
		To Chait this is evidence of dogmatic commitment to the devolution of power from state to citizen.
		I tried to read Jonathan Chait's piece on how liberals are all pragmatic empiricists just looking out for the common good, while conservatives are self-deluding ideologues clinging to their illusions with inhuman strength even as the gale-force winds o...
		So against Chait, we don't need to explain disagreement between liberals and conservatives by appealing to the notion that liberals embrace empiricism while conservatives are ideological.
	www.willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2005/02/jonathan_chait_1.html (7211 words)

	The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » Jonathan Chait's 'Case for Bush Hatred'
		Chait endorsed the war in Iraq, believes strongly in free trade, and appears to be enthusiastically backing Wesley Clark's campaign.
		Nevertheless, Chait sees Bush, his record as president, and his administration's agenda and concludes one thing: it would be "mystifying" if we didn't hate Bush.
		Chait offers a fascinating comparison between Clinton-hating and Bush-hating, while detailing the most offensive features of Bush's presidency and background.
	www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com /archives/681.html (578 words)

	LOS ANGELES TIMES COLUMN:BUSH WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY(Jonathan Chait) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Chait's someone who has been in serious need of psychiatric treatment for several years.
		Jonathan Chait is the worst journalist and certainly redefines my opinion of the word "bad" as far as journalism goes.
		Chait surmises Kerry would be hindered by a Republican Congress regarding taxes and spending issues and end up as a failure thus hurting the Democratic Party.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1238954/posts (2426 words)

	Exploding Myths - Why Israel's war on terrorism is working. By Jonathan Chait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Chait is correct that Hamas terrorists will likely step up their attacks if a peace treaty becomes imminent.
		Furthermore, Chait is wrong to suggest that the worst of the terror attacks occurred when peace proposals were in the works.
		The height of the terror attacks occurred in the midst of Sharon's aggressive campaign, after the Palestinians were infuriated by Israeli attacks, but before the IDF had achieved its goals.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2065703 (1382 words)

	memeorandum: Archive Edition for Saturday, December 11, 2004
		Jonathan Gewirtz: Modern Geopolitical Reality — The able Bernard Kerik is out but underperformin' Norman Mineta stays.
		Jonathan Gewirtz: One corollary of all this is that people like Bernard Kerik, who was probably an excellent choice to head Homeland...
		Juan Non-Volokh: Bainbridge Blasts Chait: Jonathan Chait wrote a rather dismissive LAT column on why there are so few conservatives in academia.
	www.memeorandum.com /04/12/11 (6046 words)

	Eric 2.0: Blocking Move by Jonathan Chait
		Chait, an editor at The New Republic, makes an excellent case for opposing any change to Social Security that does not cure the program's insolvency.
		We must ignore the taunts from the Right to even discuss privatization as a reasonable option, just as you would with anyone who wants to negotiate whether you put on a parachute before jumping out of an airplane at 3,000 feet.
		Chait has done something very nice for us all by posting a free link to his article at Talking Points Memo, where he is the guest blogger this week.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~touch/2005/03/blocking-move-by-jonathan-chait.html (291 words)

	Lean Left: Jonathan Chait thinks Democracy is dead
		If Chait is right, and I am wrong, being healthy increases my chance of living long enough to see Chait's disaster.
		Chait is correct - there are structural impediments to a functioning democracy in the United States.
		Despite what Chait seems to think, the structure is not God, and it is not rigid.
	www.leanleft.com /archives/000679.html (2463 words)

	Some readers asked what was wrong with Chait's piece. Incomparably, we offer rich detail
		CHAIT: Conservatives, in retrospect, now concede that some of the Clinton haters were a little bit nutty.
		Chait goes on to say why this is silly, but he insists on pretending that York and Brooks are serious in their analyses.
		Somehow, Jonathan Chait still doesn’t know that he lives in an age of pervasive propaganda, and that Brooks and Caldwell, and yes, even York, are just spinning readers blue on this topic.
	www.dailyhowler.com /dh100103.shtml (1317 words)

	OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
		Chait continues: "There seem to be quite a few of us Bush haters.
		According to Chait, Bush is "a truly radical president." On foreign policy, Chait is actually somewhat sympathetic with the president (he says he backed the liberation of Iraq).
		On domestic policy, though, Chait lapses into krugmania: "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that Bush would like to roll back the federal government to something resembling its pre-New Deal state." But it is much of an exaggeration.
	www.opinionjournal.com /best?id=110004090 (2834 words)

	The Cardinal Collective: THE ANTI-DEAN: Jonathan Chait over (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		THE ANTI-DEAN: Jonathan Chait over at TNR has started an anti-Dean blog.
		So it's very interesting to see a blog written by Jonathan Chait (whom I respect), coming out about all the things that are wrong with Dean.
		So here's a few links to things that Jonathan Chait has talked about: Dean's mis-statements (if he were talking about Bush, Chait would be calling them "lies"), his inability to communicate outside his liberal base (and here), his questionable loyalty to the Democratic party, and his general unelectability.
	www.cardinalcollective.com /blog/archives/2003/12/000040.html (345 words)

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