Ah, the fifties. You had to be ...
I have just finished reading David Lebedoff's 2008 book The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War. No, this isn"t a book review"it's a bit late for that"only some loose reflections on what Lebedoff wrote, as it relates to our present circumstances. Orwell and Waugh ...
Don't blame the politicians; America's doing this to ...
You can"t faze a New Yorker. After all these years in the Big Apple, I really should know better than to try conclusions with the natives. Place: Track 8 platform at the Long Island Railroad hub in Jamaica, New York City. Time: May 20, 11:50 P.M. Derb's ...
Having failed to commit suicide a hundred years ago, Europe's having another ...
A few columns ago I mentioned in passing that the Mrs. and I had been watching Breaking Bad. This brought some inquiries about whether we got to the end of it, and what I thought. Here are the answers. Yes, we got to the end, after four months or so of Saturday-night marathons via Netflix. For ...
It'd be worth it in the long run, but ... politicians don't concern themselves much with the long ...
The title I wanted for my 2009 call to pessimism was We Are Doomed, Doomed. The publisher thought that was too dark, though, so I settled at last for just one "Doomed." A good thing, perhaps, as the original title is now available to authors reaching for a deeper level of despair. David ...
We live in a peculiar age, a span of history in which the most obvious and commonplace observations about human nature may not be spoken ...
I"ll admit I went to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum with a bad attitude. Why are we memorializing a humiliation? Two of our proudest buildings were leveled and some 3,000 of our people were killed"unarmed, going about their workaday business"by a gang of foreign religious fanatics. Why ...
