New York City
Get me out of New York
I reached New York for the premiere of the fourth series of Industry in a mild state of delirium. I…
Penetrating Trumpland is a breeze
For this trip, I’ve had to divulge my social media handles, blood group, shoe size etc, and have therefore assumed…
Beware Mamdani’s ‘warmth of collectivism’
One of the things I admire about Zohran Mamdani is his candor. You know where you stand with him. Mamdani, who was…
Why I corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein
Olivia Nuzzi, the young and talented Trump reporter, committed the apparently cardinal sin of becoming romantically entangled with a subject.…
The Trump I (barely) know
I can’t say I know the new President of the United States very well, but during the five years I…
At 61, it’s official: I’m ‘young old’
I read with some disappointment recently that the Encyclopaedia Britannica considers 61 – the age I am now – to…
Pundits gaslight the American people on violent riots
Though Joe Biden has now accepted that violence is occurring in many major American cities and has started blaming Donald…
‘Defund the police’ just means ‘I’m rich’
Walk along the leafy streets of any neighborhood in so-called ‘brownstone Brooklyn’, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and you’ll…
Bright lights, abandoned city
Joan Didion wrote that New York is a city only for the very rich, the very poor and the very…
Bill de Blasio unites cops and protesters — in disgust
New York City is crumbling into shambolic lawlessness and its citizens are growing more afraid and frustrated by the day.…
Bill de Blasio isn’t an anti-Semite but…
Bumbling Bill de Blasio is all thumbs, and not just on Twitter. Slow to respond when Orthodox Jews suffered an…
COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
If the coronavirus were as deadly as the bubonic plague, which killed about a third of the population of Europe…
Shrunk
America’s psychoanalysts are becoming an endangered species
Mob rules
Would-be leaders of the left are harnessing the mood of angry populism
New York notebook
Bard College in upstate New York, where I teach in the spring semester, is an interesting institution, once better known…
