Who’s Afraid of Barbara Wawa?
That I have no idea who Barbara Walters is doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that this is the Times.
Fourth of July Democracy
We don’t wait. We start our own constitutional convention.
Conversation Pieces
Austen’s sparing use of attributions is also a sign of her confidence in her art. She dispensed with unnecessary scaffolding.
Cormac McCarthy’s Poetics of Being
Cormac McCarthy is provoking us more than we may realize.
The Art of Prediction and the Arc of the Moral Universe
Plausible forecasts may help us avert the worst political calamities.
Published!
The official publication day came and went. I felt weirdly out of it, waiting for something I had anticipated for half my life and worked toward unremittingly.