It wasn’t something I consciously thought about every day, but it lived beneath the surface: one day I would return home, and something inside me would finally settle. The streets I knew as a child, the language, the sea, the familiar light — all of it would somehow restore the part of me that had remained suspended in time.
In my March essay (Enemy of the People) I wrote of behaviors the American Psychiatric Association characterize as narcissism. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was my source. As I said in March, Donald Trump exhibits substantially all of the behaviors listed, including those for malignant narcissism.
Back during the AIDS epidemic of the 80s, to get a knock at your door from the Department of Health could mean life or death.
Well, the other day I was sitting outside my favorite bakery/coffee shop on LaGuardia Place (a three-block stretch in Greenwich Village) with nothing much to do when I picked up a free copy of a local weekly newspaper. I read about the happenings in the Village and with time on my hands worked on the puzzles included with the paper.
While the DGA went down to the wire in negotiations with the film producers AKA streamers, it is important to recognize the decline of all the influencers in our current motion picture and television industry.
As a supporter of the Abundance Movement and a dedicated YIMBY (Yes in My Back Yard), I have frequently had arguments with NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) opponents over housing proposals.
A battle for Maine’s Senate seat and with it a possible U.S. Senate majority for the Democrats in 2027 has grown from a seed to a forest since a September 2025 New Yorker article launched Graham Platner’s career in politics.
In Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.’s provocative America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, the Princeton professor and bestselling author probes our divided soul.
America was conceived in liberty and born in shackles. This is the “Great Contradiction” at the heart of our nation’s story.
America was conceived in liberty and born in shackles. This is the “Great Contradiction” at the heart of our nation’s story.
