By Peter Sterne 5/21 4:06pm

Dubious Claims

Michael Kinsley (Photo credit: Simon and Schuster).

Did Michael Kinsley Invent Gay Marriage?

Does The New Republic editor at large Michael Kinsley think he invented the idea of gay marriage? It sure sounds like it. Mr. Kinsley published an article in last week’s issue of TNR in which he explains that it’s okay for people to be uncomfortable with gay marriage, since it’s only been around for a couple decades. And he should know, he wrote, since he introduced the world to the idea of gay marriage back in 1989.

“The first known mention of gay marriage is an article (“Here Comes the Groom” by Andrew Sullivan) commissioned by me and published in this magazine in 1989. And I would bet that there is no one born before 1989, gay or straight, who didn’t, when he or she first heard the idea, go, whaaa?”

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By Kat Stoeffel 10/19/11 9:00am

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Puppy Love for Jill Abramson

The news of buyouts the Times was just one element of the perfect storm of press that descended upon Ms. Abramson last week, including a Ken Auletta New Yorker profile and a deluge of critical slobbering over her recently released “dogoir,” The Puppy Diaries. It was reviewed in the Thursday arts section and in The Read More

By Matt Haber 2/05/09 8:10pm

Disclosures

This week’s award for best disclosure statement goes to The Big Money’s Chadwick Matlin, who included this helpful paragraph in yesterday’s Michael Lewis: Our Money Laureate:

That Lewis is so devoted to profile-driven journalism is surprising considering his influences (which, it should be said, are influences that I—and The Big Money—share). Lewis’ career Read More

By John Koblin 11/21/07 5:40pm

Memo Got Remnick New Yorker Job, He Says

The way David Remnick became editor of The New Yorker is well-documented. A few weeks after Tina Brown had unexpectedly quit, S.I. Newhouse offered Michael Kinsley the job, then quickly withdrew his offer and gave it to Mr. Remnick.

Recently, Mr. Remnick gave a speech at his alma mater, Princeton, and offered a tiny anecdote Read More

By Staff 9/16/05 9:10am

Curiel Speaks

We’ve all been a bit busy this weeks, which is why I’m only now noting a really extraordinary moment last Friday on NY1′s Road to City Hall.

Between an interview with Bill Thompson and a reporters’ round table, NY1′s Goldin spent a few minutes on air with Carolyn Curiel, the Times editorial writer Read More