Very Long

Thursday, May 10

In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.


Monday, April 23
/ / Apr 2012

Enbridge, Inc. spilled more than a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River. Was John Bolenbaugh fired for refusing to cover this up?

Monday, March 26

The inside story of the Affordable Care Act.


Wednesday, March 7

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. Searching the library of my college, I found Marx, Lenin, and Mao, but no Strauss, Voegelin, Hayek, or Friedman. I found every variety of socialist monthly, weekly, or quarterly, but not a single journal that confessed to being conservative.

A young Brit goes against the political grain.


Sunday, February 26

Gentrification and its discontents in Paris, throughout the centuries.


Thursday, February 23
/ / Feb 2012

An exhaustive examination of Mitt Romney’s record on abortion.


Monday, November 28

The most dreadful men to live with are those who thus alternate between angel and devil.

Not long before she died, Anne Isabella Noel Byron gave a wide-ranging interview to the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Most notoriously, she accused her husband, Lord Byron, of carrying on a “secret adulterous intrigue” with his half-sister.

The Atlantic lost 15,000 subscribers in the months following publication of this article.


Friday, September 30
/ / Feb 1971

An essay on Orson Welles’ (and/or Herman Mankiewicz’s) 1941 film Citizen Kane.


Thursday, September 8

An ex-spook takes on the Warren Commission.


Saturday, September 3
/ / Sep 2006

Traveling with President Clinton.


Sunday, July 3

Tom Wolfe on the development of ”New Journalism,” an unconventional reporting style which he helped to pioneer.

I had the feeling, rightly or wrongly, that I was doing things no one had ever done before in journalism. I used to try to imagine the feeling readers must have had upon finding all this carrying on and cutting up in a Sunday supplement. I liked that idea. I had no sense of being a part of any normal journalistic or literary environment.


Thursday, May 19

An annotated transcript:

MR. SEALE: [The marshals are carrying him through the door to the lockup.] I still want an immediate trial. You can’t call it a mistrial. I’m put in jail for four years for nothing? I want my coat.