HELP! I’VE FALLEN AND I CAN GET UP: A report from the New York City Department of Investigation confirmed today what many political watchers have long suspected — that...
When I gave birth to my first baby over a decade ago, I had many options for baby products to put her down in. Baby bouncers, baby pillows, baby rockers — all manner of vessels that could contain her little body so I could do things like go to the bathroom, cook dinner, or simply […]
In November 2023, downtown San Francisco underwent a sudden transformation. Its streets were power washed, graffiti was erased, trash was cleared, and the city’s sizable homeless population was relocated. For a city grappling with a mass exodus fueled by these very problems, the cleanup revealed that it was never a matter of feasibility but rather […]
“We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists,” Andrea Dworkin concludes in her book Pornography: Men Possessing Women, originally released in 1981 and rereleased this year by Picador. It is easy to read the book nearly 45 years later as a well-meaning but quixotic and doomed quest. Even Dworkin seems […]
Taxpayers should have stopped funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting long ago, but National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher’s cowardly, disingenuous, and dishonest testimony before Congress on March 26 must surely convince reluctant lawmakers that now is the time to cut the cord. Long before Maher took the helm, defenders of NPR and the Public […]
When I tell my friends in show business that I am now at Princeton Theological Seminary, getting a master’s degree in divinity and on my way, I hope, to ordination in the Episcopal Church, their response is usually to nod thoughtfully and say something along the lines of “Can’t wait to read the sitcom script […]
Born in Toronto in 1944, Lorne David Lipowitz, as Lorne Michaels was known at birth, was, like all baby boomers, seemingly predisposed to undermine, question, and, above all, parody the prevailing conventions of his civilization. “People start to be funny early in their lives, when they notice the difference between the official version and what […]
It is old hat to say that Steven Soderbergh’s movies are stylish, but a look through the auteur’s catalog inspires few descriptors that are more fitting. The director of 35 feature films since 1989’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Soderbergh knows when to begin and end a scene. He understands what characters should wear and how […]
On the night of Oct. 10, 1985, Lt. Cmdr. Barry Steel, call sign Vert, was relaxing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. The ship was cruising in Alert 60, a readiness condition with weapons stowed and planes tied down, so it would take 60 minutes to launch a bird. “Stand by. Stand by. Now launch […]
This column will be boring to read. You know I try. I really do, but there is no other way. This week I write about antisemitism. There is so much of it about, and so much is said about it, that by now, you must as be bored with it as I am. But it […]
WEST VIEW, Pennsylvania — Female bodies are not as strong, fast, or capable as male bodies. That is not my opinion; it is a fact. Dr. Neel Burton wrote in Psychology Today just that. “Men are physically stronger than women, who have, on average, less total muscle mass, both in absolute terms and relative to […]
A tag team consisting of a reality TV star and the former CEO of the world’s largest professional wrestling organization wants to dismantle the Education Department. This unlikely duo’s rise to power began a quarter century ago, when a sea of shlock engulfed America, propelling Linda and Vince McMahon to become billionaires and Donald Trump […]
