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Editor's Letter: The upside to creative destruction
feature For music fans, there is an upside to creative destruction. On a Woodstock stage recently, I watched a friend stretch her lungs in some of the open space left by the industry’s retreat.
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Editor's Letter: If the Tea Party were black
feature For the sake of this exercise, imagine that members of Congress in March had been surrounded by thousands of angry African-Americans, yelling insults at white, Southern politicians.
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Editor's Letter: “What is your dream job?”
feature The danger in reading polls is that you discover things about your neighbors you’d prefer not to know. Take, for example, the recent Marist poll that asked our fellow Americans, “What is your dream job?”
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Editor's Letter: A mosque near the World Trade Center
feature As arguments raged over the location of mosques in New York and around the country, I thought of Jack Morgan and his predetermined ideas about who was responsible for the 1920 Wall Street blast that killed 38 and injured hundreds.
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Editor's Letter: Labor Day
feature All of this has left Labor Day feeling increasingly like summer’s other bookend, Memorial Day. It has acquired a wistful, elegiac air, its parade steeped in past glory and present anxieties.
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Editor's Letter: Christopher Hitchens confronts cancer
feature Suddenly faced with mortality, Hitchens has begun his last assignment, explaining in his droll, sharply observed prose his “deportation” to the land of the gravely sick.
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Editor's Letter: "The Ways of Washington"
feature President Obama vowed to bring in an era of clean government, but cognitive dissonance has set in early with the nomination of several candidates who don't meet the new standards.
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Editor's Letter: A hunger for heroes
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Editor's Letter: Is there a Zzzz plan?
feature A friend of mine, who played a senior role in John McCain's presidential campaign, understands the fatigue that sets in and marvels at the stamina shown by Obama and his team.
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Editor's Letter: “I hope he fails”
feature When ideology leads people to hope for the worst
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Taking care of their own
feature People have an instinct to take care of their own, but depending on the circumstances, this bit of human nature can be problematic and even scandalous.
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Editor's Letter: A new era of “duck and cover”
feature Decades of living under nuclear threat during the Cold War fostered a fatalism that tempered the jitters and allowed us to laugh in the face of existential peril. Will we someday muster a similarly cheeky response to the era of color-coded alarms
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