Dogs just want to have fun and they know how to do it Jethro bounds toward Zeke, stops immediately in front of him, crouches on his forelimbs, wags his tail, barks, and immediately lunges at him, bites his scruff and shakes his head rapidly from side to side, works his way around to his backside […]
WASHINGTON — It had already been a long day, but Judy Woodruff wasn’t in the mood to slow down. Ms. Woodruff, the anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” was seated under the chandeliers in a ballroom at the State Department on April 27, attending an event celebrating powerful women. Chilean sea bass and compulsive networking were on […]
If you’ve never gotten around to sitting down and reading Moby Dick, fear not, Bob Dylan will summarize it for you. Excerpted from his newly released Nobel Lecture in Literature, here is the opening paragraph of his description of Herman Melville’s opus: Moby Dick is a fascinating book, a book that’s filled with scenes of […]
Steve Schwarzman seems strangely content—up to a point. A decade ago, the Blackstone co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer was astride Wall Street as the private equity poster boy, armed with record-setting deals, a momentarily blockbuster initial public offering, and a birthday party that people are still talking about. The intervening 10 years brought […]
Almost 30 years ago, the New York Times nodded to a curious trend that many older English folks were growing concerned about. One of the most quintessentially British pastimes was losing its luster, largely because it was falling out of favor with younger people who hadn’t the time — or really the interest — to […]
Born in the 1930s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the “last ones.” We are the last, climbing out of the Depression, who can remember the winds of war and the war itself with fathers and uncles going off. We are the last to remember ration books for everything from sugar […]
Special Report This publication has long held that the Presidency of the United States from 2017 forward would be held by a person old enough to fit within our editorial mission: “to recognize and celebrate a new cultural force and those making the most of it,” as well as “to harvest wisdom and experience […]
Even high school students knew of H. L. Mencken in the day. That is no longer true, according to the blank stares that greet a mention of his name among today’s developing intelligentsia. More’s the pity. Revisiting this early 20th century journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English is a continuing revelation. Witness […]
This commentary is entitled simply: “How to Save the World.” It began as an exercise in how to avoid Armageddon in the Middle East, and was first written on May 15, 2001, and saved until now in hope it would improve with time. Step One. First you have to move one foot, either to the […]
The unintended consequence of the Supreme Court’s action in the recognizing legitimacy of marriage for all who live in man and woman kind may be that it does far more than recognize the union of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders. It may in time release as well all who have thought themselves free but in […]
