Thanks so much to my new friends at the Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York, who invited me to speak at the monthly meeting last Wednesday evening at the Roger Smith Hotel on Lexington Avenue. It was terrific to meet so many people who were so well-read and so insightful about the Civil War. …
The usually sharp-minded Michael Falcone and Amy Walter at ABC News’ The Note embarrassed themselves today by allowing themselves to be manipulated by notorious celebrity presshound Donald Trump into spreading his totally self-serving, self-promoting nonsense that he is considering running for president. Trump, who is trying very hard to pump life into his nearly exhausted …
Complimentary words from Matthew J.X. Malady in Slate: “A few weeks ago, Kurt Andersen tweeted the following: “Google’s digitized every issue of Spy magazine. Half up now, the rest soon. (The internet has justified itself).” Media nerds and pop culture junkies rejoiced. Spy, which Andersen co-founded in the mid-1980s with current Vanity Fair editor Graydon …
In The Atlantic this month, Graeme Wood has an article about a study undertaken by Boston College’s Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. It’s a study about how the rich feel about being rich, “an extraordinary sample of confession, memoir, and apologia” from the super-rich, as the center’s director, the sociologist Paul G. Schervish, puts it. …
Great Britain is conducting its national census this month, which save for the war year of 1941, the government has done every decade since 1801. According to an article by Jon Henley in the Guardian, the count costs £482 million, and because it “is expensive, inaccurate and inefficient,” it is likely to be the last …
As Michael Falcone and Amy Walter wrote this morning on ABC’s The Note, “Libya is fast becoming a situation with profound political consequences here at home, as ABC’s Jonathan Karl noted on “This Week”: “If Gadhafi is still in power next year, if Libya is still a mess, this will be a central issue for …
My backyard after last night’s rain, the second very large storm this week. It looks like a lot of water, but the mighty Pocantico is already receding.
I had a fun time the other night at First Anniversary Dinner of the Writers’ Center at Hunter College, which was held at Doubles at the Sherry Netherland Hotel. The best part was catching up with Bruce Jay Friedman, the maestro, and with Patty Marx, the dryly hilarious shopping correspondent of The New York. For …
Michael Moore spoke at a rally in Wisconsin last Friday, and here is what he said: “Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The …