Get Your Goat or, Dancing With Mr. G.
Sean MurphyIs 2009 going to be the year of the Goat? Let's hope so. And no, I'm not talking about the metaphorical goat, like the bonus babies at AIG or any…
Taking It To The Streets?
In today's NYT, Sudhir Venkatesh (author and Sociology professor at Columbia) contributes an op-ed entitled Too Down To Rise Up, In it he posits the intriguing, and depressing, theory that…
1973: The Things They Carried
From NYT: On March 29, 1973, the last United States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. I can't recall the last time I watched…
Straight, No Chaser
This Sunday's New York Times magazine features a lengthy, but worthwhile appraisal of John Cheever by Charles McGrath. The piece reassesses Cheever's current status (McGrath correctly concedes that Cheever, who died in 1982, has…
Malcolm, Malcolm – Semper Malcolm*
On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address a rally in…
The Intellectual Super Bowl: Frank Rich, still undefeated
MVP! MVP! MVP! If, like me, you were unable to get through a day this past fall without visiting at least a half dozen (often more) blogs, sites and newspapers (Glenn…
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life…
Roger Cohen, again. One needs to be either peculiarly observant or exceedingly self-absorbed to behold, in another's writing, traces of one's own. But for the second time in one…
Song of the Day: Daniel Barenboim (Sonata No. 14, 3rd Movement)
Beethoven again. It seems impossible to believe that Daniel Barenboim is only 66 years old. It feels like he has been around forever. Possibly it's because the music he plays--the…