What unites us? Dan Rather visits Boston.
Dissenters—be they Revolutionary War patriots or women in knitted pink pussy hats—point to the truth. This defense of the truth, and our liberty to speak it, is what makes America great.
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modern children
I saw two movies recently that should be required viewing for a parents with teens, and for teens themselves—and no, one of them isn’t The Hunger Games. My mother, a public school teacher… Continue reading
Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Do not squander time. It is the stuff life is made of. –The Clock, 3:38 PM Why, my son asked me recently, does time fly when you’re playing a really cool video game,… Continue reading
the politically pathological penis
Will a Senegalese*-New Yorker hotel maid take down the future president of France? It appears power is the ultimate aphrodisiac for pathological politicians, but alas, not for the women around them. The carefully… Continue reading
Italy, no country for women
Italy is one of my favorite places on earth, but not because of the way it treats women. In the late 1980s I spent my days as a student studying in Florence armed… Continue reading
one iPad per child?
I dashed into work this Wednesday to hear Nicholas Negroponte, the visionary who combined technology and philanthropy to create One Laptop Per Child. One Laptop Per Child, now in its fifth year, has… Continue reading
zombie parenting
Caring for a child nowadays is a complicated affair. In olden times (pre-1995, before the Internet exploded), parents didn’t have to worry about finding their children in front of the family computer, playing… Continue reading
Julian Assange: Man of the Year
Its readers spoke, but Time magazine didn’t listen. Julian Assange topped Time’s Readers’ Choice poll (Mark Zuckerberg grabbed the #10 spot), but the editors chose the guy with half a billion friends instead… Continue reading