I recently sat down with a friend of more than fifty years, Reinaldo Herrera, and was filmed while lunching by Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, also an old friend, discussing the past. The Herrera house is a grand one, on the ...
Friday marks the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination. Putting that aside, the most important question for the average American would be: How does the modern primetime network TV lineup differ from that of 50 years ago? I don"t ...
Last week saw commemorations of the 75th anniversary of Germany's Kristallnacht and the 80th anniversary of the Ukrainian Holodomor. Judging from Western news coverage, Kristallnacht wins by a landslide. On Google News, results for the ...
William Shatner missed his calling. It’s no secret that the Star Trek icon’s “acting” and “singing” make up a double-decker Dagwood sandwich larded with equal measures of ham and cheese. But have ...
When I was a kid, being a rebel was hard work. You didn"t have the Internet spoon-feeding you the latest trends. You had to dig under rocks to find out what was happening. If you didn"t find a "scene," you had to make ...
Perhaps to celebrate the Battle of Gettysburg's 150th anniversary, liberal Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson announced on June 25th that, in effect, it's too bad Pickett's Charge of July 3, 1863 failed. From Meyerson's ...
Why is it that summers used to last so much longer back then? School would be out in early June and by the time the horrid month of September rolled around, it seemed as if three years had passed. What fun it was to be young during ...
New Year's resolutions work only for bores and ambulance-chasing, money-grubbing lawyers. Normal people do not and cannot stick to them. Hence I will list for you my irritants of 2013, hoping against hope that they"ll disappear, but ...
As a child during the 1950s in the factory city of Bridgeport, CT, I constructed a social hierarchy that corresponded to where I thought the town's ethnic groups belonged. I doubt that I arrived at these rankings on my own. More likely, ...
Mass shootings have been a recognized phenomenon in the US since Charles Whitman went up the tower at the U. of Texas with a rifle in 1966 and entered Baby Boomer lore. That's about as far back as I can remember, so I can"t tell ...
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