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From the Preface to Gwen Raverat’s Period Piece: A Victorian Childhood: “This is a circular book. It does not begin at the beginning and go on to the end; it is all going on at the same time, sticking out … Continue reading →

Two years after the fact, Sen. Schatz said that the Democrats should have shut down the Senate when McConnell mugged the Constitution and torpedoed Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination. Why are the Dems not planning to do the same thing … Continue reading →

The President’s go-strategy is projection; we are correct to assume that every accusation he makes against anyone betrays his own intentions and behavior.

Moustafa Bayoumi asks in the Guardian why this goes under the radar: “The circus show that is the Trump administration has, like a fireball in an air shaft, swallowed all the oxygen in the room. The administration’s endless scandals give … Continue reading →

In every possible way:  totalitarian Kavanaugh will let Trump establish himself as above the law and lead to a further erosion of equal protections of every kind. It will, Miles Mogulesco writes at Campaign for America’s Future, “delegitimize the Supreme … Continue reading →

Outright defense of treason by Dershowitz. To George Stephanopoulos: “Look, it would be good for the American public if President Trump sat down and said everything he knows, but it wouldn’t be good for President Trump.” And Dershowitz, of course, … Continue reading →

Together at the architecturally spectacular David H. Koch center at New York-Presbyterian on York Avenue.

Back in May, I was treated to a Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne. Uncharacteristically, the weather was perfect, such that I was forced to purchase a Panama hat at the concession. I confess I drank just a bit too much champagne before … Continue reading →

Jane Eyre: “Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”

Dilip Hiro at Tom Dispatch on how Trump has turned the world against us.