Timothy Noah makes reference to Silvio "Conte" being Steven Van Zandt's character's name; however, I am quite certain his surname is in fact, "Dante" --- as in the author of The Inferno.

Agreed. Noah blew sunshine up Brian Williams' skirt last week by saying how great Williams' powers of observation were when Williams knew Tony's jacket was camel hair and who the designer/maker was. Yet Noah reveals that he actually knew said designers FIRST NAME! How much is SLATE paying this baffoon?

Silvio Conte was a congressman from Massachusetts in the Tip O'Neill era, I think. Did Noah live in Mass. in the 1980s?