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Are you Wearing a Big Boy Jacket?

“I thought it was important that we went outside. I thought it was…

Trump and the Long Con

I’m bracing myself for the first hushed rumor. Something Sean Spicer will ‘neither confirm nor deny.’ Probably in a…

Solstice Notes, 12–21–2016

So then we chopped down a conifer and dragged it inside on the shortest day of the year and we strung lights and shiny ‘round it and hung trinkets from pointy needles, trinkets that made us think of bigger times and colossal moments. And then we performed autopsies and wrote…

Bernstein in Berlin

Leonard Bernstein conducted the combined philharmonic orchestras of New York, Paris, London, Moscow, and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on Christmas Day, 1989, in East Berlin, just six weeks after the fall of the Berlin wall. He substituted…