John Epstein

Constitutional crisis?  Not yet.

To be uppity, to be contradictory, is the essence of the American system of press freedom.

Ariel Dorfman describes his and every caring person’s obligation to not forget those secretly killed by totalitarian regimes.

See the thing as clearly as you can and try for the clearest, least obscured image.

He cleaned up the subways.

It’s not embalmed in a time capsule of amber as though it was not meant to change over time.

Baseball as a metaphor for life.

In a one-hour talk that has the easy-going feel of a conversation in a diner, Nicholas Pileggi provides an account of how the Mafia came to power in New York City.

Poetry and the fighting man.