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Keeps On Ticking
My brother, Paul, was killed in a motor vehicle accident forty-seven years ago, on Monday, January 2nd, 1978. Born on Mother’s Day, May 13th, 1962, he did not live long enough to celebrate his sixteenth birthday, which would have fallen on Saturday, May 13th, 1978. Nor did h...
We Took the Bullet
In the weeks leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as we drove back to our Goose Hollow neighborhood, my daughter, her then boyfriend (now husband), and I attempted to come to a coherent understanding of where the candidates stood. We had just eaten supper...
We failed to dodge the bullet.
In the early afternoon this past Sunday, I listened to a discussion between four authors — the writer Naomi Klein and New Yorker staff writers Kyle Chayka, Andrew Marantz, and Jia Tolentino — on a topic billed as the “Digital Culture Wars.” The discussio...
