Look, what follows is really not appropriate. But it’s hard to clear the mind and hit the Friday LIRR without finally saying something.
There is one person in America telling the Tribune-owned Los Angeles Times to be more boring, and his name is Clay Risen. Mr. Risen—who penned an op-ed this week which insanely Read More
Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World, by Jedediah Purdy. Alfred A. Knopf, 303 pages, $24.
Back in 1999, a marketably young Yale law student named Jedediah Purdy wrote a book about the corrosive effects of irony. Though his arguments were often sloppy, he managed to marry the face of a Read More
For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today , by Jedediah Purdy. Alfred A. Knopf, 256 pages, $20.
I’m trying to write earnestly about the importance of being ironic. Do you think that’s possible? If you do, you’re my kind of ironist. If you don’t, if you think that earnestness and irony can’t Read More
