Friday, May 10, 2013
If you’re a drug dealer, a drunk, a crook, a phoney, a bully, a racist, a snob or a ditz you might want to go see The Great Gatsby, because the characters in the movie are your people. …
Friday, May 10, 2013
My wife and I are just back from a week and some in the Netherlands, which we spent mostly in Amsterdam, with time out for a couple of glorious days bicycling on the island of Texel. Bicycles are everywhere in that country, which partly explains, no doubt, why …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Like the Civil War, whose origins, outcome and meaning are still vigorously debated, how we remember the Vietnam War is inextricably tangled with what our political views of it are. If you believe that the war shouldn’t have …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
The term egghead has mostly been retired to the Hall of Lost Insults, hung up alongside Poindexter and gomer in the “Making Fun of Nerds” section. But being accused of being an “egghead” in the 1950s wasn’t the …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Lexington, Ky. — Writer Frank X Walker is driving to Alabama with a trunk full of books. The eight-hour trip is not out of the ordinary for Walker, who is promoting his latest collection of poems, Turn Me …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
After serving as a Navy fighter pilot in World War II, Roderick “Rocky” Stinehour came back to Whitefield, N.H., to propose to the woman who would become his wife. He and some fellow pilots had started the Connecticut …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
If there’s one lesson to be learned from David A. Stockman’s massive new book, The Great Deformation, it’s this: Beware the zeal of a convert. Stockman was Ronald Reagan’s budget director in the early 1980s, a time of …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
San Francisco — When Steve Jobs adopted “think different” as Apple’s mantra in the late 1990s, the company’s ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society. Nolan Bushnell …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
New York — Reader, if you and I can agree on anything, it’s that the Internet is made of cats. But we may differ on the follow-up: What else could it be made of? When cats took over on our screens and in our minds, whose regime, exactly, …
Friday, April 26, 2013
At Left Bank Books in Hanover on Tuesday night, Lauren Harris opened a copy of Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Between its pages, the Dartmouth freshman tucked a message she had written to future readers: “Hume is …
Maggie Cassidy
By Don's Early Light
