Kabul Scribe Writes One for the Record
To the Editor:
John Heilpern’s excellent column correctly reports and analyzes the mishandling of My Name Is Rachel Corrie by New York Theater Workshop, which has resulted in the cancellation of its N.Y. premiere, apparently out of fear of political objections to its content [“A Scandal Read More
My Favorite Merkin
To the Editor:
Thanks for Suzy Hansen’s fine piece on Daphne Merkin [“Vagina Mama-Log,” Feb. 27], but in addition to the many references to Ms. Merkin’s fiction, essays and reviews, etc., allow me to recall her introduction to the late Janet Hobhouse’s exquisite novel, The Furies, about which Ms. Merkin Read More
Precedent?
To the Editor:
Thanks to Ben Smith for the article about Al Gore [“Gore Is Bigger Than Ever!”, Jan. 30].
I had the pleasure of hearing him at the D.A.R. Hall in Washington, D.C., on Martin Luther King Day, talking about the Constitutional crisis in the communications monitoring by the government. Read More
Hillary’s History
To the Editor:
Re “Hillary’s Iraq: Ambiguous Hawk in a Fog of War” [Ben Smith, Nov. 28]: Vietnam analogies are of limited—if any—use when looking at the current situation in Iraq; but the analogy between the Democrats in 1968 and the Democrats in 2008 is more flawed than most.
Yes, Read More
Observer columnist Ron Rosenbaum isn’t for everyone, and most writing about blogging is pretty dull. But if you’re a fan, his piece this week shouldn’t be missed.
“I think the recent total frenzy of Judiana—the Talmudic, blogospheric analysis of the entire spectrum of speculation, rumor, conjecture in the Plame case and its Judy Miller Read More
To the Editor:
Ballot access is the major problem in this country, and it will never be dealt with so long as we have a two-party system [“The Blue-Ribbon Boys Make a Mess of Voting,” Nicholas von Hoffman, The National Observer, Oct. 10]. I am against both the Democrats and the Republicans insofar as their Read More
To the Editor:
I agree with Ron Rosenbaum [“The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind of Bard ‘Creationist’?”, Edgy Enthusiast, Sept. 19] that the hallmarks of creation “science” are in abundance in the Shakespeare authorship debate. Witness the persistent calls by the Intelligent Design–ers for researchers to produce the so-called “missing link”—which Mr. Rosenbaum codifies Read More
We try to figure out why Manhattan insiders are so interested in the race for Surrogate judge.
And Ron Rosenbaum starts the no-Freedom-Tower drumbeat with a good question: would you want a family member to work there? And Matt Scheuerman reports that if it does get built, David Childs will have a Read More
I agree with Ron Rosenbaum that the last Seinfeld show was an abomination. If you’d held your breath between laughs, you wouldn’t be here today. I admit I had never been hooked. Every time I watched the show, I found the jokes strained, the farce forced and the lovable four either too cute or too Read More
