Clicking through a stack of e-mail from readers indignant over something I’d written about President Bush recently, I began to think about ways in which his popularity and mine seem linked. At least in the minds of his still-numerous, if dwindling, fans.
And then I began to wonder: Is it just my imagination, or Read More
”Mr. Baker, I was overcome with excitement when I read of the opportunity you are offering,” said the e-mail. This was fine . Unexpectedly so. I had posted my ad for a research assistant barely five minutes earlier, and already I had a reply on my cable-modem line.
Thirty seconds later, I had another Read More
Recently, I was waiting with a camera crew at Columbia University’s Faculty Club for the indefatigable activist Marie Runyon, who was there to celebrate her 85th birthday. It was an ironic setting-ironic because it had been the University’s efforts to tear down her apartment building decades ago that set her on a path of activism Read More
