Listen up, there are plenty of reasons to be irritated by the data supremacists of our age, so don’t read this unless you want to find yourself sympathizing with them.
I found that many of the people I spoke with suspected the real changes at [The New Republic] would come at the…
“Many years ago an acquaintance of mine applied for a position at the Museum of the City of New York, over which Louis Auchincloss presided. The search committee met in the writer’s apartment on Park Avenue. When the candidate was asked to describe what he would do…
Leon Wieseltier actually gets to the heart of what bugs me about the New York Times magazine and its artsy sections, writing off the mag’s editor answering questions over at the Times. (An example of his answers: “More…
Thank heavens: Leon Wieseltier did not lead Maureen Dowd astray. Plagiarism-wise, at least.