Timothy Noah
@timothynoah.bsky.social
Staff writer at the New Republic (third tour), former Politico, former Slate, former Wall Street Journal, former Newsweek, former Washington Monthly, former US News and World Report, plus some other places. (I get around.)
Unbelievable.
Aaaand now the Justice Department goons are going after Jerome Powell. This is I believe the first time anybody ever thought to criminalize a difference of opinion over interest rates.
Aaaand now the Justice Department goons are going after Jerome Powell. This is I believe the first time anybody ever thought to criminalize a difference of opinion over interest rates.
January 12, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Unbelievable.
Aaaand now the Justice Department goons are going after Jerome Powell. This is I believe the first time anybody ever thought to criminalize a difference of opinion over interest rates.
Aaaand now the Justice Department goons are going after Jerome Powell. This is I believe the first time anybody ever thought to criminalize a difference of opinion over interest rates.
I didn’t know before today that in July 1980 Jeffrey Epstein was Cosmopolitan’s “Bachelor of the Month.” Helen Gurly Brown’s got a lot to answer for.
January 4, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I didn’t know before today that in July 1980 Jeffrey Epstein was Cosmopolitan’s “Bachelor of the Month.” Helen Gurly Brown’s got a lot to answer for.
This month's 11th Hour column in the print New Republic is about Trump's threatened sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal." We have since learned Trump is preparing to bypass the GSA and demolish it before sale. Please spread the word.
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This month's 11th Hour column in the print New Republic is about Trump's threatened sale of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal." We have since learned Trump is preparing to bypass the GSA and demolish it before sale. Please spread the word.
The December print issue of The New Republic begins with an unbylined "11th Hour" column whose author I am not free to divulge. Suffice it to say I have admired him since birth. It's not online so I attach it here. If you can't make it out you'll just have to buy a paper copy.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The December print issue of The New Republic begins with an unbylined "11th Hour" column whose author I am not free to divulge. Suffice it to say I have admired him since birth. It's not online so I attach it here. If you can't make it out you'll just have to buy a paper copy.
It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.
Violation of the Hatch Act at top of the SNAP web page:
"Senate Democrats are withholding services to the American people in exchange for healthcare for illegals, gender mutilation, and other unknown 'leverage' points."
"Senate Democrats are withholding services to the American people in exchange for healthcare for illegals, gender mutilation, and other unknown 'leverage' points."
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Violation of the Hatch Act at top of the SNAP web page:
"Senate Democrats are withholding services to the American people in exchange for healthcare for illegals, gender mutilation, and other unknown 'leverage' points."
"Senate Democrats are withholding services to the American people in exchange for healthcare for illegals, gender mutilation, and other unknown 'leverage' points."
The NYC lunchtime pecking order, late 1990s, sketched for The NY Times by a waiter at the Four Seasons. I sensed it would be of historic interest so I framed it and hung it on the wall at Slate.
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The NYC lunchtime pecking order, late 1990s, sketched for The NY Times by a waiter at the Four Seasons. I sensed it would be of historic interest so I framed it and hung it on the wall at Slate.
Open house today in the former Bronx Post Office on the Grand Concourse to see Ben Shahn murals not on public view for a decade. I still can’t get into the Wilbur J. Cohen building ti see the Shahns there, which are endangered by the building’s imminent sale.
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Open house today in the former Bronx Post Office on the Grand Concourse to see Ben Shahn murals not on public view for a decade. I still can’t get into the Wilbur J. Cohen building ti see the Shahns there, which are endangered by the building’s imminent sale.
Please share this.
October 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Please share this.
New t-shirt. I don’t want them to have to look too hard.
October 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New t-shirt. I don’t want them to have to look too hard.
I had to go to NYC to find out something I never heard about during the 45 years I've lived in DC: There's a gigantic Ben Shahn mural inside the government building that houses the Voice of America.
September 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I had to go to NYC to find out something I never heard about during the 45 years I've lived in DC: There's a gigantic Ben Shahn mural inside the government building that houses the Voice of America.
Labor parade passes you-know-who Tower.
September 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Labor parade passes you-know-who Tower.
The Ben Shahn exhibit at the Jewish Museum in NYC hadn’t gotten a lot of ink, but it’s quite wonderful, and offers a bit of inspiration for these difficult times. It’s there through October 26.
September 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Ben Shahn exhibit at the Jewish Museum in NYC hadn’t gotten a lot of ink, but it’s quite wonderful, and offers a bit of inspiration for these difficult times. It’s there through October 26.
I joined the LA County Museum of Art so I could see the new David Geffen Pavilion. It does not yet have art in it, which makes a museum visit more brisk than usual, but the two smaller pavilions do, including Magritte’s “Ce n’est pas un pipe,” which I’d forgotten was here.
July 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I joined the LA County Museum of Art so I could see the new David Geffen Pavilion. It does not yet have art in it, which makes a museum visit more brisk than usual, but the two smaller pavilions do, including Magritte’s “Ce n’est pas un pipe,” which I’d forgotten was here.
I bought a sandwich on this gorgeous day in DC and thought I might eat it in Dupont Circle. But I can’t because it’s barricaded against Gay Pride marchers. I hate what my country is becoming.
June 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I bought a sandwich on this gorgeous day in DC and thought I might eat it in Dupont Circle. But I can’t because it’s barricaded against Gay Pride marchers. I hate what my country is becoming.
Your faithful correspondent in 1987, chortling at the absurd notion that Patrick Buchanan would ever be a presidential candidate. The following year I predicted on C-SPAN that George H.W. Bush would choose Alan Simpson as his running mate.
www.c-span.org/program/call...
www.c-span.org/program/call...
May 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Your faithful correspondent in 1987, chortling at the absurd notion that Patrick Buchanan would ever be a presidential candidate. The following year I predicted on C-SPAN that George H.W. Bush would choose Alan Simpson as his running mate.
www.c-span.org/program/call...
www.c-span.org/program/call...
April 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We interrupt this fight to restore constitutional government and the rule of law to note that spring has arrived. Life still sucks, but now it will suck and be somewhat less cold.
March 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We interrupt this fight to restore constitutional government and the rule of law to note that spring has arrived. Life still sucks, but now it will suck and be somewhat less cold.
Huge turnout for Politics & Prose teach-in on rule of law, civil rights, and civil liberties on featuring Jamie Raskin, David Cole, Skye Perryman, and Kelley Robinson. Starts at 7, live-streamed here:
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March 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Huge turnout for Politics & Prose teach-in on rule of law, civil rights, and civil liberties on featuring Jamie Raskin, David Cole, Skye Perryman, and Kelley Robinson. Starts at 7, live-streamed here:
politics-prose.com/event/2025-0...
politics-prose.com/event/2025-0...
AARP Magazine is a genius at making me feel very, very old. Its latest cover features that adorable little girl from "ET," who will become--can this possibly be true?--AARP-eligible later (i.e., 50) this month. Say it ain't so.
February 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
AARP Magazine is a genius at making me feel very, very old. Its latest cover features that adorable little girl from "ET," who will become--can this possibly be true?--AARP-eligible later (i.e., 50) this month. Say it ain't so.
Celebrating publication of my friend and former neighbor Juan Williams’s new book on today’s civil rights movement, “New Prizes for These Eyes.”
February 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Celebrating publication of my friend and former neighbor Juan Williams’s new book on today’s civil rights movement, “New Prizes for These Eyes.”