A seaplane out of Manhattan
In the awfulness of LaGuardia Airport, one terminal stands out as a reminder of better days
Life
Tuesday
Trapping gators in the Everglades
You cast a ‘huge-ass hook’ into the water, snag the creature, then ‘pull like a bull’
How I learned to stop worrying and love self-promotion
Meet the new me: the shameless, self-promoting media slut that I’m trying to become
Keeping Syracuse time
This year, to celebrate my wife’s birthday, I showed her a traffic light
Monday
The slumber of the Anglosphere
Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?
Monday
Spain’s caminos come calling
There is a haunting beauty to their desolate vistas, an intimidatingly brutal type of splendor
Tuesday
From Moscow to Kyiv and back again
War and revolution have trailed me like banshees
A Joycean odyssey
In search of the Irish author’s Swiss resting place
Getting in touch with my inner groupie
Wonder what sort of a sad sack asks for a selfie with someone famous? Answer: me
The downfall of Niagara Falls
The city, not the waterfall, which remains a source of utter befuddlement
Politicians are not ‘just like us’
At least Trump won’t go down in the history books as ‘Don’ or ‘Donnie’
Monday
My Tina Brown fantasy
I waited twenty years for the Tina call — but alas I suspect I’ve got a lot more waiting to do
The selfishness of rich socialists
Albert Brisbane somehow avoided sharing the wealth with his neighbors
From modernism to totalitarianism
Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology
Thursday
The death of the ladies’ man
It’s not cool to be a lothario nowadays
Who was the most right-wing member of the Beat Generation?
On the Abbeys and the Beats
Conservatives and culture
Is the historical American culture being diluted, weakened and transformed by multiculturalism?
Thursday
Is swinging back?
Polyamory is basically swinging on an industrial scale
A day in DC
The Jefferson Memorial still gives off a far better vibe than the Potomac anthills in which the self-important Get Things Done
Fall of the godless
The New Atheists called down fire and brimstone on the godly everywhere