Claremont, CA…. When my mother came to visit last week, she brought a copy of The Yiddish Policeman’s Union with her. Before she departed for the airport this morning, she left the book on my shelf.
And just like
Susan McWilliams
Claremont, CA…. Men of Western civilization, take note: David Brooks thinks that you – and he – are done for.
In a recent exchange with Gail Collins, published on The New York Times “Opinionator Blog,” Brooks makes an argument
Claremont, CA…. In the current conversation on health care, we often hear that the crises of costs and coverage are problems that come with an aging population. OK. Fine.
What’s not fine is the assumption that because an aging
Claremont, CA…. The most haunting, awful scenes in Thucydides’s history of the Pelopponesian war are those describing the Athenian plague.
The plague emerged in the second year of the war, moving quickly from the port of Piraeus into the
Claremont, CA…. This is just too good.
Driving near Universal City last weekend, I saw a sign for what is possibly the most mind-blowing business concept I have ever encountered in my entire life: a solar-powered tanning salon.
If
Claremont, CA…. The New York Times has joined a host of other publications asking the question: Is college worth it? And again, just like every time I read an article that attempts to answer this question, I want
Claremont, CA.… On the flight home, I read an issue of Delta Sky Magazine that listed the Panama Canal as one of “70 Wonders of the World.” The canal was listed, along with places like the Golden Gate Bridge and
Claremont, CA.… Tomato, the main character in Erika Lopez’s terrifically kooky Flaming Iguanas, loves the post office. She says, to be precise, that she has a “profound love for the United States Postal Service.” She laments that too few people
Claremont, CA…. Yesterday I was walking past the post office in my latte-liberal, bohemian-bourgeois town, when I saw a picture of President Obama made up to look like Hitler. Two relatively sane-looking people were standing at a table
Claremont, CA. …I spoke last week at the New Jersey Governor’s School for Public Issues, a (mostly) state-funded summer program for civic-minded students about to enter their senior year in high school. I went to the Governor’s School when I
Claremont, CA…. I am not ashamed to admit it: I like television. I think television is important. I think television is worth watching.
Oh, I know all the objections. Television makes people fat. Television makes people stupid. Television
A few years ago I dated a guy who seemed terrific. Nate (not his real name) was cute, smart, funny, and athletic. Oh, and he happened to be a management consultant.
Our relationship was still in its early swoon when…
Claremont, CA…. When she is six months pregnant with their baby, Verona and her boyfriend Burt almost move to Montreal – because a couple they knew in college lives there. That’s after they almost move to Phoenix (because her
Claremont, CA.… Wendell Berry, writer and farmer and hero to the people, might move from the farmhouse to the big house.
Speaking at one of the USDA’s National Identification System (NAIS) “listening sessions,” Berry told the crowd that he would
Claremont, CA…. A student has confronted me about Front Porch Republic. So now I’m writing the post that I’ve known I would have to write someday.
“It just doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that you would do,”
