January 17th, 2013
This coming weekend will be thrilling—and potentially heartbreaking—for fans of the Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, and Atlanta Falcons, the four teams vying to advance to Super Bowl XLVII, which will be played on February 3 in New Orleans. As for me, I haven’t had a thrilling football weekend this millennium. See,… Read This Article »
January 14th, 2013
In September 2011, a social worker I’ll call Roscoe Harris made his way to a plaza in lower Manhattan where he’d heard some activists had gathered to protest the greed of Wall Street. A soft-spoken education counselor who lived in Brooklyn, Harris did not think of himself as the protesting type. At the demonstrations… Read This Article »
April 8th, 2012
Twenty years ago last week, Serbian snipers fired on a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in Sarajevo, launching a brutal siege that brought ethnic violence in the Balkans to menacing new heights. In the two decades since, attention has understandably focused on the deeds of the architects and perpetrators of the Balkan wars. Confronting the truth… Read This Article »
June 9th, 2009
In case you were too busy watching the Sunday morning news shows, Roger Federer won the French Open yesterday, tying Pete Sampras’ record of fourteen career grand slams and solidifying his claim to being the greatest tennis player of all time. Federer’s victory over Sweden’s Robin Soderling was not an exciting affair – he won… Read This Article »
October 1st, 2007
One morning last year, not long after the publication of my first book, Absolute Convictions, I paid what turned out to be an ego-deflating visit to Amazon. I went there to check the latest fluctuation in the ranking of my book, which, alas, had yet to land on the best-seller list. But the true source… Read This Article »