LARRY AND TERESA TAKE IRVINGTON
Ginny and I and our friends Cathy and Tim caught Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams at the Irvington Town Hall on Saturday, February 2nd. They were tremendous, and the hall was intimate and comfortable.
JANUARY 2019: “WE NEED A NEW ARCHITECTURE”
1.31 The Polar Vortex comes to New York 1.31 George Will in the Post: “[Klobuchar‘s] special strength, however, is her temperament. Baseball, it has been said, is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. That is also true of politics, another day-by-day game with a long season. It requires an emotional equipoise, …
BILL JAMES FOR THE HALL OF FAME
This article appeared in the New York Times on January 21, 2019. This week, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce a new class of inductees, setting off rounds of celebrations — and debates. Fans will argue over whether Mariano Rivera deserves unanimous approval, or whether the use of performance-enhancing drugs should permanently block the …
JANUARY 2019: “THE BUCK STOPS WITH EVERYBODY”
1.21 Wealth held by the world’s billionaires has grown from $3.4 trillion in 2009, right after the meltdown, to $8.9 trillion in 2017. (UBS and PwC Billionaires Insights via Bloomberg) The 3.8 billion people who make up the world’s poorest half saw their wealth decline by 11% last year. (Oxfam, which works to alleviate poverty, …
ELLIS ISLAND INAUGURATION
“We will move forward, not by building walls, but by building bridges.”
EVERYTHING’S RIGHT WITH THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Last night we saw The Play That Goes Wrong at the Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street. It was hilarious! We laughed and laughed, and then laughed some more. From left: Shawn, Molly, Ginny, me, Cara, and Cara’s friend Joe. Those Broadway theater people–they know what they’re doing!
DECEMBER 2018: “THERE ARE NO MORE EXCUSES”
12.31 On the final episode of Escape at Dannemorra, Michael Imperioli plays the Gov. He is undersized and underused, but he conveyed the Gov’s confidence. 12.30 Mike Allen in Axios: One of the most important trends likely to drive the 2020 presidential race: A growing disillusion with capitalism as practiced, and a coming struggle over …
TIME CHIMES IN
George H.W. Bush has died, which means some work I contributed to THE once mighty Time Inc empire has finally seen the light of day. Five or six years ago. when Steve Koepp was running Time books, he recruited me to contribute to a few of the books they were producing. President Bush was feeling …
DECEMBER 2018: “I WILL TAKE THE MANTLE FOR SHUTTING IT DOWN”
12.13 Margaret Atwood: The systematic effort to drive a rift between access to knowledge and the citizens of a country has a familiar ring to this dystopian novelist. When I wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, I made sure that nothing went into it that had not come from somewhere in history. I used journalists, historians, and …
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CHRISTMAS IN ALBANY
Speechwriters get their yules tied at the Governor’s Holiday Party in Albany. That’s Mac Barrett, Amy Hubbard, and Tom Topoussis with me.