OUR MAN IN BOSTON

If you grew up in the fantasy idyll known historically as the Eisenhower Years, all was right with the world, except for the threat of nu...

"I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very great for a lot of Cubans." Alma Guillermoprieto w...

Any one who tries to create or make things, eventually comes to understand, as Albert Einstein remarked, we all stand on the shoulders of
― Charles Bukowski “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" Hanlon’s Razor (The Jargon File) "You just take something, and then you do something to it, and then you do something else to it. Keep doing this and pretty soon you’ve got something.” Jasper Johns I do not like experts. They are our jailers. I

I have had trepidations about going out in public, as I am without a "I voted "sticker. The new found enthusiasm for a basic element of ...

One of the remaining  benefits of residing in a  major coastal New England metropolis is, wax and wane as it might, the presence an activ...

Photographer Abelardo Morell was born in Cuba in 1948 and grew up in New York City and attended Bowdin College and Yale University. His p...

Looking back (which one is impelled to do frequently in this dark, upside-down world), I am pleased that I adopted a deep, unexamined ap...

Apparently, Jews have to be murdered in the US to remind everyone of the toxic ‘ism' of Jew Hating. For most Jews it is  a given that thi...

There was a time as a midcentury public intellectual opined that baseball was one of a reliable set of indices with which to pontificate ...

The occasion of DC's masterful storyteller George Pelecanos' newest offering ,The Man Who Came Uptown, suggests a trip into the way back...

Well now, we are two thirds through the2018 MLB season and (uncomplicated) trade dead line has passed—MLB purported $400 million man wen...

One of the splendid by-products of the brave new world of hyper-everything, is the derangement of time‚ causing small metrics of temporal...

First published at Identitytheory.com in 2006 Even before he was named Poet Laureate of the United States in June, Donald Hall was a fami...

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Susan Sontag In a worl...

The last gasp of the once bell weather of the downtown Manhattan hipoisie demimonde, Interview magazine has been expelled and now it rema...

Any one who tries to create or make things, eventually comes to understand, as Albert Einstein remarked, we all stand on the shoulders of
- Philip Glass. "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." —Jean-Paul Sartre Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. “ Thomas Paine To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize—Voltaire "Th

Marathon Day 2018 was one of the most miserable days in all my years in Boston. Which, meteorologically speaking, pretty much is what the...

There was a time (1954) when cultutal historian Jaques Barzun opined "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better lear...

This conversation with Philip Kerr took place in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston in early 2011. As his twelfth Bernie Gunt...

Howard Zinn Copyright 2018 Robert Birnbaum  Howard Zinn grew up in a working-class family in Brooklyn where he became a shipyard laborer
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