Barry Newman

Author of “News to Me,” a book of his feature stories, with essays on how he got them, as a reporter and foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal

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Barry Newman

Jun 13, 2017 · 3 min read

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

A Patriotic Perspective on Your Own American History

Do you realize…

…that if you were twenty-four in 1970, you would have been born in 1946, and if you met someone who was seventy-one…

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Barry Newman

Nov 17, 2016 · 8 min read

Education of a Trumpsogynist

Donald Trump finished college almost 50 years ago, on the cusp of the Counterculture. So did I. We didn’t learn much about girls.

Self-immolation was a popular activity in the mid-1960s for Buddhist priests in Vietnam. Not to be outdone, Concordiensis…

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Barry Newman

Aug 10, 2016 · 11 min read

Cyberchondria:

Digital Diagnosis in Overdrive

Barry Newman | Longreads | August 2016 | 11 minutes (2,698 words)

My headache arrived just after April Fools’ Day, moving into orbit around my right eye, with side trips to the back of my neck. It was…