The Books I Read in 2021
For several years in a row, I’ve done a long write-up of the books I’ve read during the year. This is my entry for 2021.
View ArticleThe C.D.C. Is Hoping You’ll Figure Covid Out on Your Own
From The C.D.C. Is Hoping You’ll Figure Covid Out on Your Own: The job these officials have is tough, given both the reckless political opposition even to vaccines and the inevitable criticism even...
View ArticleNo One in Kyiv Knows Whether Russia Is Bluffing
From No One in Kyiv Knows Whether Russia Is Bluffing : This moment is “strange—very, very strange,” Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defense minister, told me. For people in his country, the...
View ArticleThe Right Has Its Own American Crisis
From The Right Has Its Own American Crisis: Survey after survey shows the same result: Americans believe in a crisis of democracy, but they disagree on which one, and Republicans are more concerned...
View ArticleThe Real History of Prohibition Is Global
From The Real History of Prohibition Is Global: This broader global context makes clear that prohibitionism was not conservative; it was progressive. It was not a culture clash of the propertied...
View ArticleFree Community College Won’t Be in Spending Bill, Jill Biden to Say
From Free Community College Won’t Be in Spending Bill, Jill Biden to Say: “One year ago, I told this group that Joe, my husband Joe, was going to fight for community colleges. But…” Anything after Dr....
View ArticleIf You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
From If You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying: Sometimes, to be a resident of polite society, you have to lie, and this feels unpleasant for a moment but is usually bearable. But lying...
View ArticleOn The Night They Bombed Ukraine
Is it basically one gang against another gang? And you and me, victims and witnesses. Speaking as a generally-stay-within-100-miles-of-my-home American citizen whose relationship to “the world” is...
View ArticleSincerely, Goodbye Mr. C.K.
My students have to write an essay this week on any controversial topic of their choosing. They have to state their opinion and support it using at least three different reasons, each supported in...
View ArticleAlito’s Plan to Repeal Roe—and Other 20th Century Civil Rights
From Alito’s Plan to Repeal Roe—and Other 20th Century Civil Rights: A movement will eventually emerge to oppose the criminalization of abortion and the despotisms this draft would create, and perhaps...
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