Montgomerie, when sunny I found yesterday’s Times story on the collapse of the formerly-surly Colin Montgomerie at the U.S. Open amusing. I’d watched the end of the Open with a friend who was leaping up out of his armchair with…
Playwright Zellnik, and actor Glenn Fleshler A couple weeks back a guy named David Zellnik emailed me, asking me to come see a reading of his play: “Ariel Sharon Stands at the Temple Mount and Dreams of Theodor Herzl.” What…
Back when I was a kid, we used to denounce people who used code words for Jews. Rootless cosmopolitans was the classic. The modern variants were “pushy,” “aggressive,” and “New Yorkish.” It was antisemitism cloaked in euphemism. Lately I’ve noticed…
“How It Happens” Striking, contemplative, remorseless, and amused, this painting, by Eric Erickson, whose work is widely collected (and who’s a friend of mine) is featured in a show at the ADD Gallery in Hudson, up through July 16.
A few more reasons not to pull for the U.S. against Italy tomorrow: 10. The players reportedly don’t know what their roles are, why should the fans? 11. Soccer moms: The game still has an entitled, suburban feel here, and…
The Forward (in a fine piece of reporting on a conference on the future of the Jewish people arranged by a leading Jerusalem thinktank, to which no women were invited) quotes feminist leader Shifra Bronznick, and on third reference to…
The item I did on John Mearsheimer’s talk at the Naval War College in which he likened Iraq to The Plague has generated a great deal of comment, all favorable. Frankly, I’m honored to have gotten his words out to…