Literati packed into Gail Collins’s shabby-chic Morningside Heights apartment on the evening on Wednesday, June 17 to celebrate the launch of J. Courtney Sullivan’s debut novel, Commencement, set largely at the author’s alma mater, Smith College. Ms. Sullivan, who previously penned Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find A Quality Man, was the Read More
The battle over Reagan and race that had been playing out recently on the New York Times op-ed page appeared to have subsided by the end of last week. But it received new life over the weekend when Reagan biographer Lou Cannon contributed a guest op-ed asserting that "Ronald Reagan was not a Read More
So many of us, leftleaners, were confused through the first week of the Lebanon fighting. It was obvious that Nasrallah was provoking something, wrongly; it is obvious that Iran is not a good actor; those rockets were targeting civilians in Haifa. Still, I/we sensed that there was something awful about the Israeli reaction, the carnage, Read More
Bob Herbert had a breathtaking column in the Times today, condemning Israel for going overboard in its (just) retaliation for the Hezbollah strike, and faulting the U.S. for allowing it. “Neither Israel nor the United States can kill enough Muslims to win the struggle against terror,” he writes, and says the United States Read More
In a city forever stunned and horribly awakened by the
terrorist attack of Sept. 11, there ought to be a new awareness of the ways in
which unexpected and “impossible”
events can-and do-happen. This is why every New Yorker, provided with the
facts, must conclude that the Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3 nuclear Read More
