Don’t Write, Don’t Call
A while back, the Kenyon Review warned prospective contributors that it “does not read unsolicited manuscripts during the months of April, May, June, July, August, …
Academic Freedom from Information
Recently I tried to discover information about a former colleague, now a full professor at a state university, who had been accused of plagiarism a …
Standing Up To a Bully
I’ve written pages before that the current inferno in Palestine began when Ariel Sharon marched with too many troops into the Old City of Jerusalem, …
Another Day, Another Dollar
In an interview on C-Span, a New York Times reporter named Jan Hoffman, the principal writer ~f the 200-word obits that continue to appear, noted …
Sex After Marriage in New York
The most heartening thing about Mayor Rudolph Giuliani giving the oath of office to his successor Michael Bloomberg in Times Square on New Year’s Eve …
Dis Guy Gotta be Nuts
I guess Mike Bloomberg learned from New Jersey’s junior senator Jon Corzine that an underdog who spend a lot of his own In total, Bloomberg …
The Genius of John Walker
Given the evident failure of American intelligence agencies to prevent the kamikaze attacks of Sept. 11, I was surprised that the chiefs of the FBI …
Where my Heart Is
My apartment became famous for a day several years ago, when it appeared at the top of the front page of the New York Times’ …
Plane of Fools
If you consider the principal effects of their violence, the 19 guys rank as monumental fools: 1) closer cooperation between the two old superpowers, Russia …
A Crash in the Rockies
On Nov. 12,·two months and one day after terrorist-commandeered commercial airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center, another American Airlines jet crashed into the Belle …