CAPTURED!
My cousin Walt King, gifted artist and member of the faculty of the Columbus College of Art and Design, has turned me into art. I’m thrilled. Thanks, Walt!
THE SOUTHWEST PHILLY FLOATER!
La Salle guard Tyrone Garland banks in a lay up with two seconds to go to beat Ol’ Miss, 76-74, in a third round NCAA Tournament game. La Salle reaches the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in, like, forever. Next game: Thursday, versus Wichita State.
HENRY BROMELL, 1947-2013
Three of the most interesting hours of my life were spent in the company of Henry Bromell, who died the other day at the age of 65. Henry was a writer–of short stories and television scripts mostly, but also of an also of a novel and of screenplays. Ann Kolson had assigned me to write …
EZRA KLEIN DOESN’T UNDERSTAND HIS OWN PROFESSION
Ezra Klein is a bright young journalist for The Washington Post who is, I suspect, destined for a long and distinguished career. I do not think he will have to approach the end of it to realize that one of the posts he wrote last week for his wonkblog that appears on the paper’s website …
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SIX WHO FAILED
For those of you who may have lain awake at night wondering “Geez, were there six men who could have prevented the Civil war from becoming a murderous army vs. army conflagration, please avail yourself of the opportunity to pick up the April issue of The Civil War Times, and read my article “Six Men …
TRICKY NICK
Having spent all that (mostly enjoyable) time in graduate school reading The Prince, I was delighted to see that Professor Stephen J. Milner of the University of Manchester has discovered the arrest warrant for Niccolò Machiavelli hidden away in a state archive. The 500-years-old document was the catalyst for Machiavelli’s writing The Prince. When the …
HOW HE DID
Ed Koch died last Friday at the age of 88. In retirement, he became a beloved figure, a loud, opinionated uncle, unhip in his easy gracelessness, comfortable in his blotchy skin. But in his prime, he was a large figure, with a great intellect and enormous confidence, vain, nasty, ebullient, fun. One of his greatest …
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, JOIN ‘EM–THEN BEAT ‘EM
As my friend James Rosen of Fox News has reported at Greta Van Susteren‘s blog, in the aftermath of the Newtown mass murder, NRA membership actually increased. “A source at the NRA tells Fox News, based on his access to an internal memo prepared by the organization’s membership division, that since the Newtown massacre, the …