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Nov 7, 2025
Within my first few days as a freshman at Brown, I joined two political clubs: the Brown Democrats and the Young Communist League. The latter was primarily tongue in cheek—I...
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Oct 6, 2025
In a sense, human beings are constantly playing games with one another. Whether finding one’s place in the pecking order, testing another’s mettle, angling for scarce...
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Sep 22, 2025
Like most fans of rock ‘n’ roll, I gravitate to works from the vicinity of Greater Manchester intuitively, involuntarily. Even as someone who’s never once set foot...
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Sep 15, 2025
Some weeks back, shortly after news broke of Columbia University’s controversial settlement with the Trump administration, I was honored to be asked for my take by a...
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Sep 4, 2025
Year after year, one of my very favorite TV shows used to be the reliably inspiring American Ninja Warrior on NBC. It was like a more wholesome remix of American...
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Aug 15, 2025
If there’s any single description that might most sum up the social posture of Columbia University over my eleven-year tenure as an in-house reporter, historian, and PR flack,...
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Jul 23, 2025
How long ago now seems spring 2024, when I flew to Chicago to attend my very first Heterodox Academy (HxA) conference and had a rollicking good time at the Marriott on the...
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Jul 2, 2025
I’d had some inkling it was coming, and this past Thursday afternoon brought the news I’d dreaded for years—that iconic PBS journalist Bill Moyers, my hero and...
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Jun 16, 2025
Back in 1989, amid the first flush of what was then known as “political correctness,” a troupe of ardent feminists had famously infiltrated the roof of Columbia...
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Apr 28, 2025
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity,” Hanlon’s razor advises us. But then again, as another saying goes, “never say...
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Mar 3, 2025
As someone deeply concerned about institutional corruption, much has been refreshing about Elon Musk’s merry band of DOGE barbarians laying waste to dubious federal programs...
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Feb 6, 2025
When I’m behind the wheel, no road trip is complete without a country-fried steak from Cracker Barrel, preferably served with turnip greens and fried okra. I’ve become a...
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Jan 22, 2025
There were some things I really loved about working for Columbia Law School. I had a fantastic team of colleagues in the Office of Public Affairs who taught me much of what I know...
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Jan 10, 2025
September 9th, 2014—a date that still lingers in my personal infamy. That was the dark day that Apple officially discontinued the finest portable music player ever devised, the...
Nov 7, 2025Within my first few days as a freshman at Brown, I joined two political clubs: the Brown Democrats and the Young Communist League. The latter was primarily tongue in cheek—I...
Oct 6, 2025In a sense, human beings are constantly playing games with one another. Whether finding one’s place in the pecking order, testing another’s mettle, angling for scarce...
Sep 22, 2025Like most fans of rock ‘n’ roll, I gravitate to works from the vicinity of Greater Manchester intuitively, involuntarily. Even as someone who’s never once set foot...
Sep 15, 2025Some weeks back, shortly after news broke of Columbia University’s controversial settlement with the Trump administration, I was honored to be asked for my take by a...
Sep 4, 2025Year after year, one of my very favorite TV shows used to be the reliably inspiring American Ninja Warrior on NBC. It was like a more wholesome remix of American...
Aug 15, 2025If there’s any single description that might most sum up the social posture of Columbia University over my eleven-year tenure as an in-house reporter, historian, and PR flack,...
Jul 23, 2025How long ago now seems spring 2024, when I flew to Chicago to attend my very first Heterodox Academy (HxA) conference and had a rollicking good time at the Marriott on the...
Jul 2, 2025I’d had some inkling it was coming, and this past Thursday afternoon brought the news I’d dreaded for years—that iconic PBS journalist Bill Moyers, my hero and...
Jun 16, 2025Back in 1989, amid the first flush of what was then known as “political correctness,” a troupe of ardent feminists had famously infiltrated the roof of Columbia...
Mar 3, 2025As someone deeply concerned about institutional corruption, much has been refreshing about Elon Musk’s merry band of DOGE barbarians laying waste to dubious federal programs...
Feb 6, 2025When I’m behind the wheel, no road trip is complete without a country-fried steak from Cracker Barrel, preferably served with turnip greens and fried okra. I’ve become a...
Jan 22, 2025There were some things I really loved about working for Columbia Law School. I had a fantastic team of colleagues in the Office of Public Affairs who taught me much of what I know...
Jan 10, 2025September 9th, 2014—a date that still lingers in my personal infamy. That was the dark day that Apple officially discontinued the finest portable music player ever devised, the...