5.30 Loretta Swit dies at 87. 5.28 Gautam Mukunda in Bloomberg: “Imagine if China or Russia tried to destroy a US asset that generates tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars of economic value, plays a major role in American leadership in science and technology and turbocharges our prestige and soft power. We’d expect …
4.30 Lawrence H. Summers, in conversation with Bill Kristol: “The issue is becoming, in a meta sense, confidence in the United States. When people go in and out of being confident in you, that is alarming. It’s the kind of thing that in a developing country, you’d ask yourself whether they’re going to have to …
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After Montreal, we headed further north to visit Quebec City, where neither of us had ever been. It’s a very beautiful city. On Sunday, we visited the still snow-spotted Plains of Abraham, where the British general Wolfe defeated Montcalm, the excellent general who had already won important battles at Fort Ticonderoga and Fort William Henry. …
We spent three days in a mostly but not entirely overcast Montreal. We stayed in the elegant Hotel Bonaparte in Vieux Montreal, just a short walk from La Place des Armes, where we saw the statue of the chevalier and Notre Dame. That night we had a wonderful dinner at the posh hotel restaurant. On …
4.4 On the way to Montreal, we stop in Plattsburgh, on the northern shore of Lake Champlain. 4.3 Jesse Kornbluth dies at 79. 4.3 The Economist: “If you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you …
3.31 Tim Mohr dies at 55. 3.29 On the first three pitches of their half of the first inning, the Yankees hit three home runs, an MLB first. During the 20-9 victory over the Brewers, the Yankees, using their new torpedo bats hit nine home runs. 3.29 In Atlanta 3.29 Jamelle Bouie in the Times: …
2.28 David Brooks on PBS: “I was nauseated, just nauseated. All my life, I have had a certain idea of about America, that we’re a flawed country, but we’re fundamentally a force for good in the world, that we defeated Soviet Union, we defeated fascism, we did the Marshall Plan, we did PEPFAR (President’s Emergency …
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On Tuesdaywe headed east to a snowy Gettysburg. We lunched at Dobbin House, checked out Little Round Top, and spent the night in the hospitable Gettysburg Hotel. On Wednesday, we finished up the trip in Lancaster, where we toured Wheatfield, the lovely home of the former Worst President in American History, James Buchanan.
On Monday we went to the Andy Warhol Museum. It was interesting to get a fresh perspective on someone who had such a visual impact on the culture we inhabited. For the first time, it dawned on me that so much of the art we saw on Saturday Night Live and on MTV descended from …
Last week Ginny and I went to visit our good friends Greg and Susan Schmidt in Pittsburgh. We had a lot of fun. On Saturday, after breakfasting at the crowded, somewhat disorienting Oakmont bakery, we went to the campuses of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon. We saw the iconic Panther statue, the iconic …