She’s an exceptionally bright student. I’d taught her before, and I knew her to be quick and diligent. So what, exactly, did…
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CULTURE
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At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts…
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The most heartening, and maybe most important, event of the Trump Administration so far arrived just after 1 A.M., on Saturday, in…
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By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from…
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Clare Carlisle, a British philosopher and an award-winning biographer, is fascinated by books that relate the inner lives and sensibilities of others.…
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In 1976, when I read “Who’s Who in the Cast,” by Marshall Brickman, I was astounded. The piece, a “casual”—which is what…
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Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was the second…
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Before I became a journalist, I got a Ph.D. in Russian literature. I don’t miss academia, but I do miss my Moscow…
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By the standards of world-historical events, much of Donald Trump’s Wednesday afternoon speech in the Rose Garden was remarkably forgettable. Trump opened…