When Danny was a kid, he and his cousin Howie—an awkward, overweight, nerdy sort of boy who didn’t really fit in—used to play together at family gatherings. But one day, Danny, following his older cousin Rafe (“not the oldest cousin but the one they all listened to”), led Howie down into a mazelike cave somewhere Read More
When Danny was a kid, he and his cousin Howie—an awkward, overweight, nerdy sort of boy who didn’t really fit in—used to play together at family gatherings. But one day, Danny, following his older cousin Rafe (“not the oldest cousin but the one they all listened to”), led Howie down into a mazelike cave somewhere Read More
Long before the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the new film about climate change starring Al Gore, the scientific consensus had ratified the warnings he has delivered over the past two decades. Leading business executives in the insurance, investment and even the energy industries have conceded that he was right. Conservative politicians who scoffed Read More
The Boston Globe put the Brandeis censorship on its front page today (and did a better job than I did of writing it up!).
Published three weeks ago in London, the Walt-Mearsheimer paper on the power of the Israel lobby is the biggest controversy today in the world of ideas. It has been criticized by left wing Jews, and both the Boston Globe and Washington Post have, in covering the matter, given a platform to those attacking the paper’s Read More
Bill Weld may not have made much of an impression on Al D’Amato –”he had not even met Mr. Weld until recently,” the ex-Senator told the Times — but the Weld campaign emailed over a pretty convincing set of clips that detail at least two meetings, despite D’Amato’s denials. Weld apparently recalls three Read More
One of Bill Weld’s donors is an indicted Massachussets pol, Tom Finneran, the Boston Globe reports.
And Uptown Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat shares a byline in Baltimore with blogger/activist David Sirota, calling for states to force employers to offer health insurance.
Spring isn’t here, but the Presidential campaign is, as charges and countercharges envelope the men who aspire to execute the laws.
Torments will not open my lips on one charge. Whenever it arises, Republicans should retire to a desert island, minus their cell phones, and if any enterprising journalist tracks them down, they must say, Read More
Late last year, a little-known Democratic Presidential candidate confided deep misgivings about his party’s revamped nomination process. The would-be Bush challenger worried that by accelerating the tempo of primaries and caucuses in 2004, the Democrats would make a decision they would later regret.
“In the past, when we’ve done this, settled on somebody quick, then Read More
Demonology , by Rick Moody. Little, Brown, 306 pages, $24.95.
There is a sense in which reading fiction especially short stories, which by definition must cut quickly to the chase is like eavesdropping. It’s eavesdropping with permission, of course; that’s what the binding means. Nevertheless, most stories represent a conversation the author is having with Read More
