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The malaise-free Carter era in American journalism
“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” said Charles Foster Kane. But in the telling of…
Adolescence is gripping, beautiful … propaganda
One Sunday morning in October 2007, I woke up without having seen someone brutally stabbed for…
W.G. Sebald’s essays from beyond
When W.G. Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was eulogized by the…
Rob Long: My career avoiding giving career advice
A young friend of mine called me up the other day. He is in the venture capital business and…
A murder on the San Francisco frontier
Shortly before dusk on Nov. 3, 1870, Laura Fair approached Alexander Parker Crittenden as he…
John McWhorter’s preferred pronouns – Washington Examiner
“To mess with our pronouns is to mess with our sense of the order of things, what’s up and…
Returning to the origins of baseball
My brother Rick and I grew up in a time and place ideally suited to the formation of lifelong…
The Great Gatsby at 100
In 1816, John Keats wrote in his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” that when he…
The miniseries of Procrustes: Review of The Leopard on Netflix
Fitting a novel‘s plot into two hours is an undertaking like jamming Cinderella‘s stepsister’s…
The curdling of California and Gavin’s party
In November 2023, downtown San Francisco underwent a sudden transformation. Its streets were…
