Andrew J. Bacevich has a characteristically smart piece in the new Atlantic Monthly on the largely internal debate over military tactics fought between what he terms the Crusaders and the...
Michael Lewitt writes in today’s New York Times that if A.I.G. collapses, life as we know it will come to an end. Money grafs: More promisingly, A.I.G. asked the Federal...
Elegy is Old School for grown-ups. Based on The Dying Animal, Philip Roth’s 2001 novella about a fictional Columbia University literature professor and his sexual liaisons with a recent student,...
Everyone’s a-titter today about Lehman going bankrupt and Merrill being bought by Bank of America. These are not minor events to be sure, but in many ways they don’t directly...
I was deeply shocked and saddened to read that writer David Foster Wallace took his own life this past weekend. The death of such a talent is always a loss,...
I haven’t seen the ads that David Donadio references below. But reading about them put me in mind of this.
