Emdashes. The New Yorker between the lines

Best of Emdashes: Hit Parade
Our Daily Comic: The Wavy Rule
Archive: Ask the Librarians

Send us a question!

Frequently:
Headline Shooter
Seal Barks
Eustace Google
Looked Into

The Squib Report
X-Rea: Irvin Type Watch
Letters & Challenges
On the Spot
Personal

Hertzberg and Toobin on Final Pre-Election "Campaign Trail"

Filed under: The Squib Report Tagged: Dorothy Wickenden, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jeffrey Toobin, podcasts, politics

Just under the wire, Dorothy Wickenden and her insightful colleagues have contributed their last (I assume) edition of the "Campaign Trail" podcast before the bulk of the votes are cast tomorrow (absentee voters, of which I am one, still have about a week to get their ballots in). It's an unusually loose session, and a lot of fun: it emerges that the trio has a common history at The New Republic during the Reagan-Bush years. (Hertzberg was editor, Wickenden managing editor, and Toobin frequent contributor.)

Which leaves us with a question: Wickenden closes out the podcast with a reference to a post-election episode of the podcast—I should hope so!—but what is the fate of the series once the "campaign" part of the title ceases to apply? Will it revert to a more mellow podcast devoted to politics in general, or will they pack it up until late 2011? (Or perhaps late 2010, for the midterms.) I could see merit in either decision (while selfishly contending that the process of laying down the foundations of the post-Bush era demands as much, if not more, attention by our nation's podcasters). We'll find out soon enough!

0 comments

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, it may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Thanks for waiting.)

Your name

Your email address

Your website address

Remember personal info?

Your comments

About us

Hello! We are media enthusiasts and culture addicts—not to mention classically trained (as we like to say) professional journalists. This is our collection of generally civilized conversations about magazines, movies, politics, punctuation, and other things that stir us.

You'd like to read more about us individually? That's so nice! Here you can learn a lot more about the Emdashes team, the mysterious-sounding names of our daily and non-daily columns, and our guest contributors.

We welcome tips, questions, and comments, and are always looking for ardent new contributors who care about letters (postal, typographical, admiring, literary, and tough-love). Here's how to contact us.

Occasionally, we host book giveaways, and review books here as often as we can. Publishers, please e-mail us and we'll send you an appropriate mailing address.

Our favorite things | Compliments and press

Tell me more

They say that dashes “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like em dashes—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.

Emdashes, founded in 2004, is currently written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. (Unsigned posts through October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.)

The site is designed and maintained by House of Pretty and illustrated by Jesse Ewing for Inkleaf Studio. Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (who also draws our daily comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The kissable Emdashes logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.