Re-Crossing Delancey

In a signed editorial by Francis X. Clines in today’s New York Times, we learn that gentrification is changing the Lower East Side. While Mr. Clines concedes that this is an old story—"Hasn’t that been the case ever since this sliver of Manhattan was laid bare more than a century ago as the crammed Read More

A Sinister Bush-Saud Cabal-Or Just Business As Usual?

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties , by Craig Unger. Scribner, 368 pages, $26.

‘Tis the season for Bush-bashing, by means fair or foul. Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies was merely the crescendo-oris itBob Woodward’s Plan ofAttack?Recent months have brought us Kevin Phillip’s American Read More

Boston Magazine Headline Provokes Cries of Racism

The headline of a profile of Harvard professor and New Yorker contributor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the April issue of Boston magazine has provoked an outcry from several prominent civil rights leaders in Boston and forced Boston editor in chief Craig Unger to defend his publication against charges of racism.

The 12,000-word profile, written Read More