Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano noted at the top of her speech that three previous presidential candidates from her home state – Barry Goldwater, Morris Udall, and Bruce Babbitt – were all unsuccessful in their efforts.
"Speaking for myself, and at least for this coming election, this is one Arizona tradition I’d like to see continue," Read More
Obama’s America
On a bitter February day, in a city best known as the resting place of Abraham Lincoln’s mortal remains, an African-American Senator announced his candidacy for President of the United States. This is the season for such announcements; rarely does a week pass without word of another addition to the 2008 campaign. But Read More
Our culture of publicity makes it difficult to talk in negative terms about a new book without sounding dismissive or mean-spirited—all the more so when the author of the disappointment has to his credit Mystery Train (1975), which many consider one of the best books ever written about popular music.
Perhaps high expectation is the Read More
Our culture of publicity makes it difficult to talk in negative terms about a new book without sounding dismissive or mean-spirited—all the more so when the author of the disappointment has to his credit Mystery Train (1975), which many consider one of the best books ever written about popular music.
Perhaps high expectation is Read More
I couldn’t resist posting this.
Hillary Clinton noted that Abraham Lincoln “didn’t hesitate” to change generals during the Civil War, and that said “We have a secretary of defense who is not credible anymore.”
John Spencer responded, “Abraham Lincoln changed generals…you’re not president yet Mrs. Clinton, so don’t call for that.”
– Azi Paybarah
That Reporter–or, as he called himself, T.R.–sat at his desk and thought about words. It was a Wednesday in New York, and an airplane had hit an apartment building. Had what? Hit it? A building? Yes, it had. Debris had fallen from the sky. Debris lay scattered in the street. Debris and facts.
Who Read More
It was not your typical V.F.W. reunion. First off, most of the war vets were Communists, either current or former, possibly Anarchists. (At least one could quote Bakunin.) Also, most of them had been spied on at some point by the F.B.I. Welcome to the 70th anniversary of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Read More
Can you ever really know your parents? I don’t think so. There’s just too much information that’s unavailable, not to mention experiences you childishly misinterpret or simply misremember.
And yet Janna Malamud Smith, Bernard Malamud’s daughter, a therapist with a master’s degree in social work, indulges in the kind of facile speculation about her father’s Read More
Can you ever really know your parents? I don’t think so. There’s just too much information that’s unavailable, not to mention experiences you childishly misinterpret or simply misremember.
And yet Janna Malamud Smith, Bernard Malamud’s daughter, a therapist with a master’s degree in social work, indulges in the kind of facile speculation about her Read More
Charles Grodin has written a play about co-op board meetings in a Fifth Avenue building. Second only to writing a play about potato farming in Idaho, I’m not sure Mr. Grodin’s idea is quite so exciting as it may seem.
It could be that I have a bias against the small dramas of members Read More
