This came from an article in yesterday’s Washington Post.
Today, the Atlantic published an essay the late Alex Tizon wrote about the woman who spent her life as a slave for his family and his lifelong attempts to understand why. It’s a stunningly honest piece about something second-generation immigrants rarely address — the old world…
I have been screaming about this on Twitter for the past week which is probably not the most productive way to engage and certainly unsatisfying, so here’s my attempt to get down my thoughts about the liberal punditry’s great hobbyhorse, the protests at Middlebury…
Debate Won’t Save You: Some thoughts on the Steves.
Ever since Buzzfeed published a transcript of a speech Stephen Bannon gave at the Vatican, there has been an ongoing effort to understand him through what he reads and what he writes. The New York Times, alone, has published parts of a hip-hop opera Bannon wrote about…
I just got back from Seoul, where I was covering the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye. You can…
Yesterday we pushed the baby in the stroller for six blocks and then turned around. I felt some shame for my Stokke Explory which retails for about 1200 and doesn’t even convert into a car seat or a bassinet like the Uppababy Vista. I don’t see why I should withhold this financial…
Small books cast a religious hold on their devotees. The repeat reader experiences something close to transference — he puts the book in the pocket of his jacket, feels its reassuring, blocky heft and thinks of all the fellow seekers…
I enjoyed ‘Take Out,’ which is steaming right now on Filmstruck. Go watch it now.
Wrote about the Women’s March for Vice News. Think it’s an interesting rebuttal to the David Brooks column that’s been going around the Internet today. Brooks and Jonathan Chait have both argued that identity politics won’t save us, which seems insane given the turnout on Saturday, but…
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