On Sunday, in the pretty village of Noyers-sur-Serein, in Burgundy, the mayor, wearing her sash of office, presided over the voting in the Presidential election from behind a table set up in the stone town hall. She was flanked by two Read More …
In 2015, Laura Kipnis, a film-studies professor at Northwestern University, published a polemic in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe.” Kipnis argued that students’ sense of vulnerability on campus was expanding to an unwarranted degree, partly Read More …
What with U.S. aircraft carriers sailing in the wrong direction, Attorney General Jeff Sessions describing Hawaii as “an island in the Pacific,” and Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock larking around in the Oval Office, it’s been a pretty Read More …
Last night, at Sully’s Bar & Grill, which sits across the street from the Carrier Corporation’s furnace plant, on the west side of Indianapolis, and serves as the de-facto company bar, two of Carrier’s soon-to-be-laid-off longtime employees had a drink Read More …
On Monday, the White House hastily organized a press teleconference on the Iranian nuclear deal. The accord—brokered by the world’s six major powers two years ago—is to President Trump’s foreign policy what Obamacare is to his domestic policy: he is Read More …
My one and only encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., was during a chance meeting on what was then called “Sweet Auburn Avenue,” the prosperous hub of black-owned businesses in Atlanta. It was the summer of 1961, when King had Read More …
During the 2016 Presidential campaign, eleven women accused Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances toward them. Following a well-worn playbook used by other accused sexual harassers, Trump dismissed the women as “horrible, horrible liars” and their allegations as “pure Read More …
Click:Kraft paper bag In the always active “it’s tough to be a guy” department, few recent developments are more choice than the announcement, last week, by His Royal Highness Prince Henrik of Denmark that he refuses to be buried next Read More …
The Australian national postal service is currently busier than usual: it is in the middle of delivering ballots for the Australian Marriage Law Survey to the postboxes of sixteen million eligible voters. On each form is a single question: “Should Read More …
“It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.,” Donald Trump said last October, before presenting his “five-point plan” for improving ethical standards in government. “This is why I’m proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government Read More …