A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs, By Mona Simpson I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father …
I have a dream that President Obama will say the following on his 2012 campaign stump speech. As president, I have to address both domestic policy and…
Aristotle BY BILLY COLLINS This is the beginning. Almost anything can happen. This is where you find the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land…
Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2011: Amy Waldman has performed a rare and dangerous feat in writing an airtight, multi-viewe…
The press is all on Bachman-Perry Overdrive(as my daughter MA put it) right now, but according to this post, the Perry part of this obsession has some…
A Standard & Poor's director said for the first time Thursday that one reason the United States lost its triple-A credit rating was that several lawma…
From Ta-Nehisi Coates comes this: This is what I meant by nostalgia as a species of laziness: At a New York political event last week, Republican and …
We are here for what amounts to a few hours, a day at most. We feel around making sense of the terrain, our own new limbs, Bumping up against a herd o…
My brother Ted recently read this poem to our 85 year old mother and he reported that "when I was done she had tears in her eyes." I can see why. Abso…
From Jonathan Rauch, comes this... I like the tone of the President's press conference on the debt-limit negotiations. It had the right mixture of adm…
