The Hack List

Aaron Sorkin versus reality

The increasingly unpleasant superiority complex of America's most prominent liberal screenwriter

Alex Pareene 287 Topics: The Hack List, Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

It's time to take the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez seriously, as depressing as that is

Alex Pareene 33 Topics: National Review, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Media Criticism, The Hack List, Editor's Picks

Luke Russert is being groomed as a simulacrum of his father -- but without the inspiring rags-to-riches story

Alex Pareene 40 Topics: The Hack List, Luke Russert, Media, Media Criticism, MSNBC, NBC, Editor's Picks

The National Review hack is a unique figure: Striving for seriousness, but too lazy to achieve it

Alex Pareene 73 Topics: Editor's Picks, National Review, The Hack List