Skip to Main Content

ADVERTISEMENT

Michael Moynihan is a former cultural news editor at The Daily Beast.

ADVERTISEMENT

Trump’s Secret? Americans Love Bullsh*t

Medicine Show

This isn’t complicated. Lots of us love stupid miracle cures—especially when celebrities are hawking them.

Michael Moynihan | Published Jun 03, 2016

Bernie’s Deep Ties to Despots

SANDERISTAS

As mayor of Burlington, Sanders praised the regimes of Nicaragua and Cuba—claiming bread lines were a sign of economic health and press censorship was necessary in wartime.

Michael Moynihan | Published Feb 28, 2016

GOP Debate Dunces Think We’re Stupid

FLUNKED

These candidates think they should be elected to the most powerful position on Earth and yet none of them have any idea what is going on in the world.

Michael Moynihan | Published Dec 15, 2015

Labour PR Head’s a Soviet Apologist

Ostalgie

The Labour Party’s new head of communications is so radically weird, he has to be a Tory plant.

Michael Moynihan | Published Oct 21, 2015

Mafia Author’s Plagiarism Problem

Literary Louses

<p>Roberto Saviano’s new book on organized crime, <i>ZeroZeroZero</i>, contains numerous instances of apparent plagiarism, along with interviews with ‘sources’ who may not actually exist.</p>

Michael Moynihan | Published Sep 24, 2015

Michael Moynihan on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’

The Daily Beast’s Columnist appeared on September 11’s ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ along side Linda Chavez and Salman Rushdie. They discussed the European refugee crisis, Rick Perry, and Donald Trump.

Michael Moynihan | Published Sep 12, 2015

Whitewashing the Black Panthers

Hagiographers of the World, Unite!

A new PBS documentary tries to excuse a murderous and totalitarian cult.

Michael Moynihan | Published Jul 25, 2015

Literary Elite Takes on Dead Journalists

French Satire Experts

Hitler. Goebbels. Hebdo. Really? Can the PEN members boycotting Tuesday’s Courage Award for the slain French satirists really not tell the difference between racism and mocking racism?

Michael Moynihan | Published May 05, 2015

Gunter Grass Was a Finger-Wagging Scold

Mr. Moral Compass

<p><i>The Tin Drum</i>, his masterpiece, was his only good novel. The rest of the time the late German Nobelist could hardly stop lecturing us long enough to tell a story.</p>

Michael Moynihan | Published Apr 19, 2015

Castro’s Hipster Apologists

IMPERIALLY DUMB

The thawing of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba has elicited a lot of patronizing, asinine fretting about the imminent “Americanization” of Cuba.

Michael Moynihan | Published Dec 18, 2014

ADVERTISEMENT