A WSJ interview with David Foster Wallace on the occasion of the publication of McCain’s Promise , a repackaged version of an excellent article he wrote in 2000 about following McCain’s campaign for two weeks. He gets into the current election a little as well:

The truth—as I see it—is that the previous seven years and four months of the Bush Administration have been such an unmitigated horror show of rapacity, hubris, incompetence, mendacity, corruption, cynicism and contempt for the electorate that it’s very difficult to imagine how a self-identified Republican could try to position himself as a populist.

(thx, bill s.)