I’ve been back one week and the good old US of A has never seemed more depressing
Is this the future of American culture, already a contradiction in terms, or is it progressivism, as some call the chaos?
America should be more like West Virginia
Bette Midler and others slime the state as backwards but those who are from there know better
Poor. Illiterate. Strung out. Those were the three words that Bette Midler used to describe West Virginia after the Mountain State's Joe Manchin announced he would vote against Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill. "He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state," Midler said. It's a tale as old…
Staten my preference
Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life
America should be more like West Virginia
Bette Midler and others slime the state as backwards but those who are from there know better
I’ve been back one week and the good old US of A has never seemed more depressing
Is this the future of American culture, already a contradiction in terms, or is it progressivism, as some call the chaos?
The healing power of Champagne
‘Glass of bubbly, Marigold?’ I asked Catriona’s sister at a quarter to nine on the first morning of her visit
Did the culture wars kill the New Year’s Eve party?
How do we celebrate when all the old pleasures have been pathologized?
Mark Twain in Buffalo
Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly
The exhortative tradition in America
To summon your brethren to raise a City Upon a Hill as a beacon to all mankind is a pretty tall order
How to survive eating out
The greatest human spirits would view the new era of show-your-papers dining not as a hardship, but as an opportunity
Tastings from an energy drink connoisseur
What energy drink, I ask myself, will aid an energetic think?
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