Scar Tissue
A topic I seldom mention: that much of my otherwise comfortable upbringing was marred by domestic violence on a near-daily basis.
The Ivy Exile
Redemption of a recovering flack. Ex-Brown/PBS/Columbia. Somewhere between Manhattan and America.
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The Metastasis of Technocracy
The 2003 documentary The Fog of War, tracing the career and late-life musings of Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, has become an ever more fascinating artifact as the decades go by.
The Decline and Fall of the Information State (For Now)
Pleased to reappear in the Washington Examiner Magazine…
On the Exercise of Soft Power
As I’ve mentioned recently, the past few months have been a trying time: my elderly mother fell and broke her hip, went through a couple of rounds of hospitalization in which we discovered she’d lost much of her ability to digest food, and is now more or less in hospice care as we await the inevitable.
An Exile Looks at 40
As of summer 2020, with just about everything locked down except for riots in the streets, turning 35 was a distinct downer.
Sympathy for The Donald
Those times of year I catch the Metro-North up to gather with the Westchester branch of my extended family, I have an ironclad rule: don’t talk about politics! They’re all ardent progressives, as I once was, and years ago as our views diverged there were a number of unfortunate instances when spirited disagreement flared into raised-voice disagreeableness I’d always regret afterwards.
Chronicle of a Decline Foretold
Within my first few days as a freshman at Brown, I joined two political clubs: the Brown Democrats and the Young Communist League.
"Common Knowledge" and the Games People Play
Pleased to reappear in the Washington Examiner Magazine…
Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest Oasis
Pleased to reappear in the Washington Examiner Magazine…
Can Columbia Be Redeemed?
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 respected web magazine.