Nothing so slight that it doesn't count...
It's just a letter to the editors, but it's The Atlantic, by God! It's the Atlantic. I penned a response to David Frumm's argument "How...
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George F. Will on Holden Caulfield
A month ago conservative pundit George F. Will was interviewed by The New York Times Book Review. The only unusual statement he made is a...
David Brooks Understands America
I like many of the things David Brooks has had to say in recent years. I should take time out to say so. When writing about spirituality,...
William Gass: The Tunnel
I read in the Times Book Review today that William Gass wrote the elusive "novel of the Trump era" back in 1995. I'm going to push it to...
What Melville Saw
Melville saw that Ahab projects every injury, wrong, sin, evil, insult, hurt and resentment in his body onto the white whale, deems it...
Holiness vs. Fanaticism
July 12, 2019 I posted this comment to David Brooks' opinion in The New York Times on July 5, "Will Gen-Z Save The World?" Mr. Brooks,...
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