American Prospect "crackup" according to Kaus

Bradford DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Mon Oct 21 17:25:21 PDT 2002



>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>>Hmm-- well not that I consider Kaus an accurate source on the American
>>Prospect, but found this item interesting in light of my recent question
>>about TAPPED's politics:
>>
>>http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072312
>>Kaus- Die TAPperdammerung: This late-breaking news on the continuing
>>American Prospect crackup. ... Kausfiles hears that 1) The Prospect board is
>>planning to announce Wednesday...
>
>Well, that's a testable proposition. Kaus has been pronouncing the
>TAP's imminent death for ages now. Let's see if this comes to pass.
>I talked to a TAP staffer recently who said that he has no idea what
>he's talking about. We'll see in less than 48 hours.
>
>Doug

Well, so how long has Kaus been predicting _The American Prospect's_ crackup? And what has happened?

Maybe I should talk about it on my weblog, in the interest of making Kaus's predictions come true. I've always found that Robert Kuttner rubs me the wrong way (for reasons I have not analyzed)...

Brad DeLong



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