If you’re sick of the endless comparisons between 2006 and 1994, read no further. But indications point to a regional realignment tomorrow on the same order as that Republican revolution 12 years ago.
Just consider the six New England states, home to a combined 22 House seats. 17 of them are now occupied by Democrats Read More
If you’re sick of the endless comparisons between 2006 and 1994, read no further. But one underlooked aspect of the ’94 GOP revolution may be playing out this year too: Regional realignment.
Yes, Bill Clinton’s unpopularity – Time once used its cover to label him “The Incredible Shrinking President”, in case you forgot – was Read More
In the past year, I’ve visited nearly 100 restaurants, eaten at least a dozen tuna tartares, over 20 plates of “crudo,” a flock of organic chickens, God knows how many pounds of grass-fed beef, and enough fish to fill a tank at the Coney Island Aquarium. So this week seems a good time for a Read More
In the past year, I’ve visited nearly 100 restaurants, eaten at least a dozen tuna tartares, over 20 plates of “crudo,” a flock of organic chickens, God knows how many pounds of grass-fed beef, and enough fish to fill a tank at the Coney Island Aquarium. So this week seems a good time for a Read More
Almost everyone has a story to tell about being caught in a storm, and accounts of storms are as variable as the people who recall them. My own earliest memory of a storm goes back to the 1938 hurricane that devastated much of the New England coast. I was then 10 years old, living in Read More
Sometime in the 17th century, there developed the notorious “Triangle Trade”: rum and shoddy goods from New England to Africa; slaves from Africa to what would become the Old Confederacy; tobacco, sugar, molasses and cotton from the South to New England.
In the Era of Globalization, there has developed what I think of as the Read More
The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance by Benjamin Anastas. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 277 pages, $24.
If books were shelved according to the cadence of their titles rather than by the names of their authors, Benjamin Anastas’ new novel might find itself wedged between Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusetts Colony and Wonder-Working Read More
New York’s political classes, a group that includes all manner of soothsayers, layabouts and long-lunchers, have decided that the New York primary really, really counts for something this year.
This, of course, is what they said about the 1992 Democratic primary. And the 1988 Democratic primary.
They were wrong then-Michael Dukakis and Bill Read More
In Search of American Jewish Culture , by Stephen J. Whitfield. University Press of New England, 307 pages, $26.
Just Revenge , by Alan M. Dershowitz. Warner Books, 322 pages, $29.95.
Reading In Search of American Jewish Culture , I was reminded of the elderly family friend who used to argue so avidly and Read More
We are truly in a fun house of justice, a kind of deconstructed reality where everyone brings to the trial his or her own story, and the media fan the flames so high and hot that every Dick and Jane becomes an expert with an opinion, and onlookers weep and cheer as if their own Read More
