4.22 Jonathan Chiat in The Atlantic: “Time after time, however, the traditional conservatives have accepted Trump’s authoritarianism and corruption because he stays loyal to them on their key issues. The path of least resistance for maintaining the coalition is to give each faction what it cares about most: Traditional conservatives get low taxes for the …
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 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 have a firmer grip on reality …
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 …
2.14 Six other prosecutors follow Sassoon and resign, including lead Adams prosecutor Hagen Scotten, who writes, “[A]ny assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing …