Now we know what Mayor Bloomberg would have done had he been Mayor on 9/11: summoned the shade of Abraham Lincoln and told him to handle it. That is what he, and Governor Pataki, and all the worthies, are in effect doing at the one-year anniversary, by reading golden words of crises past instead of Read More
My son Francis’ favorite movie is Gettysburg . I suppose we’ve watched it together a half-dozen times straight through–not bad for a three-hour film. In our family, we’re gluttons for the quality stuff; I must have 300 hours of Law & Order reruns on the clock already, and now that I have a TiVo recorder, Read More
I spent the last days of the old century reading about the time and place where it all began, it being the now departed 1900′s. Academics and those who wish they were (and even a few who are glad they aren’t) are fond of saying that the 20th century didn’t really begin until a Serbian Read More
