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Sarah Jones ‘Disposable’ Excerpt: How Fringe Captured Right
How the Fringe Captured the Right Feb. 15, 2025 This is adapted from Sarah Jones’s forthcoming book, Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass, available from Avid Reader Press on February 18. Earla Dawn Dimitriadis sought beauty in life and looked for it on her deathbed, her daughter, Jennifer Ritz Sullivan, said. No stranger to ugliness,…
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Did New York City Forget How to Teach Children to Read? This fall, Eric Adams is pivoting to phonics.
By Caitlin Moscatello, Sept. 13, 2023 The debate about the best way to help children learn to read goes back more than 100 years, but an overwhelming body of data has shown the benefit of having kids sound out letters and words. One of the largest analyses of such studies is a 2000 report by…
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Laura Linney on Ozark, Love Actually, Philip Seymour Hoffman | Vulture
She lives for the stage and treasures her co-stars. Just don’t ask her about the ending of Ozark. By E. Alex Jung, June 22, 2022 When Laura Linney starred in a 2002 Broadway revival of The Crucible, her favorite part was Act Three, when her character, Elizabeth Proctor, doesn’t appear onstage. “I would be underneath…
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Why the Republican Party Has No Agenda; Why the GOP Is Ideologically Lost
By Eric Levitz @EricLevitz, April 30, 2021 | New York Magazine, Intelligencer, Conservatism American conservatism has long been an incoherent and hypocritical creed. There is nothing new about Republicans preaching balanced budgets while practicing fiscal profligacy; or prescribing laissez-faire for the indigent while expanding welfare for conservative constituencies; or equating public investment with communism while…
