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Accounting for the innumerable ways that a mild-mannered businessman is distinct from a best-selling author, I always felt that my father had more than a few things in common with...
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There are very few times in life when a sentence written in the first person can be opened with the words “Like Flannery O’Connor,” but this is one of them: Like...
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Anyone who grew up thinking of themselves as an outcast, outsider, or overall oddball would likely have noticed that, far from being exiles from popular culture, they were the...
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To be a selective adopter of new technologies, as I am, brings certain annoyances, especially when it comes to carrying on conversations with my fellow citizens. For example, it is...
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Mar 25, 2025
Any show that uses the title card “Baldwin Residence: East Hampton” is rather begging to be hate-watched. And on that basis, The Baldwins on TLC, which peers...
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Mar 4, 2025
While looking through some grade school yearbooks not long ago, I came to the conclusion that I was never much of a joiner.
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Feb 21, 2025
All sensible and right-minded people can agree that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in need of a serious infusion of greatness, but what about the Kennedy Center...
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Jan 24, 2025
The decades-long valorization and near-deification of the late filmmaker David Lynch is a sign of declining cultural standards and decaying societal values.
Long ago, the public...
Oct 14, 2025Accounting for the innumerable ways that a mild-mannered businessman is distinct from a best-selling author, I always felt that my father had more than a few things in common with...
Oct 3, 2025There are very few times in life when a sentence written in the first person can be opened with the words “Like Flannery O’Connor,” but this is one of them: Like...
Sep 24, 2025Long before I ever interviewed Robert Redford, who died in his sleep last Tuesday, I had been told that, among the many qualities that the legendary movie star possessed, punctuality...
Aug 26, 2025Anyone who grew up thinking of themselves as an outcast, outsider, or overall oddball would likely have noticed that, far from being exiles from popular culture, they were the...
Jun 17, 2025To be a selective adopter of new technologies, as I am, brings certain annoyances, especially when it comes to carrying on conversations with my fellow citizens. For example, it is...
Mar 25, 2025Any show that uses the title card “Baldwin Residence: East Hampton” is rather begging to be hate-watched. And on that basis, The Baldwins on TLC, which peers...
Mar 4, 2025While looking through some grade school yearbooks not long ago, I came to the conclusion that I was never much of a joiner. I was not a member of Honors Chorus, and my commitment to...
Feb 21, 2025All sensible and right-minded people can agree that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in need of a serious infusion of greatness, but what about the Kennedy Center...
Jan 24, 2025The decades-long valorization and near-deification of the late filmmaker David Lynch is a sign of declining cultural standards and decaying societal values. Long ago, the public...