
The Wages of Pain and the Pit of Despair
Do not spoil yourself by sparing not the rod but the right to answer the most important question. Do not answer this question with a […]
Do not spoil yourself by sparing not the rod but the right to answer the most important question. Do not answer this question with a […]
Beware of politicians bearing arrows instead of olive branches, whose bellicose words further belligerent ends; whose only end is not an end to war but […]
The hardest note to write is a hardship for friends and loved ones to read. Whether the words speak of peace, the subsequent act is […]
John McCain’s favorite novel is For Whom the Bell Tolls, which is also the title of the new HBO documentary about this man for whom […]
It was a Pyrrhic victory. It was a battlefield win in a political war that was lost. It was an uncontested primary, not a real […]
Working on a hit TV series is a rarity. It provides steady employment for people of many gifts, including sound and lighting experts, hair and makeup […]
I miss Charlie Rose. I miss his interviews of Tom Friedman, theNew York Times columnist, who looks like a holdover from the 19th century—with his […]
This is a day of debts both moral and monetary. The moral being, debt is not determinative but circumstances are. Your circumstances will determine whether […]
From a distance, it looks like a tabletop covered with sheets of artificial turf, featuring squares of green plastic and mats of textured, sage-colored brush […]
Definitions of fascism differ as much as fascists beg to differ that their respective brands of justice are unjust. But there is no such thing […]
He was prolific but never prosaic. He was rhapsodic but never routine. He was also outrageous but (almost) never obscene; because, in this mixture of […]
On June 3, 1966, Richard Nixon delivered the commencement address at the University of Rochester. On that day, three days before the 22nd anniversary of […]
Tom Wolfe tailored his sentences like he wore his suits. Each was a bespoke piece in a seemingly endless wardrobe of exclamation points and onomatopoeia, […]
He stands in an open-air convertible, a boat of a car as long as a suburban driveway, with two couches for seats and a giant […]
It was a distress signal disguised as a military display: a Mayday for May Day, where the peoples of the Soviet Union were forced to […]
A postscript to Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s televised catechism from the residence of the White House, in which the first lady, dressed in red and […]
Ted Cruz: Why am I here? Mark Zuckerberg: Senator, your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming […]
Mark Zuckerberg dangled more than he bedazzled, with his posterior atop a seat cushion while his ass was not on the line; while he traded […]
A mountaintop is as much a summons to greatness as it is a summit graveyard, where Mother Nature smites the worst elements of human nature; […]
The best acceptance speeches are the most gracious ones. I will be grateful if those are the only speeches actors and directors deliver at the […]