When you find yourself responding to any political criticism with 'SHH! You'll spoil everything!' perhaps consider who is responsible for the problem here

I spent hours at the UCLA encampment on its 1st & last day, and interviewed students, faculty, & others who were there as well. For The New York Review of Books, on the jarring dissonance of their experience & the narrative parroted by the media, the admin, & the white house: nybooks.com/online/2024/05…

By the way, while you read this piece, ask yourself what was so scary about it that it was killed by NYTimes Opinion after a round of edits.

Talked about being a Chicago [Evanston] writer with Peter C. Baker nybooks.com/online/2024/05…

Hillary Clinton's disingenuous attempt to blame Yasser Arafat for rejecting peace with Israel in 2000/2001 is a good excuse to remind yourself of what actually happened - Israel and the US were at least as responsible as Arafat for the collapse of talks nybooks.com/articles/2002/…

Love a fancy restaurant where you flush the toilet with an enormous button

I must speak my truth: both the guys in Challengers are like 7s at best

There's been a misunderstanding: FLowers. It's 'May FLowers'

Walter Johnson on the Gaza solidarity encampment at Harvard nybooks.com/online/2024/05…

Congratulations to Nathan Thrall (Nathan Thrall) for winning the #Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, which grew out of this article.
go.nybooks.com/4bmxCjE

Imagine if Emile Zola had been like 'Je n'accuse pas, words are so powerful, what even is morality or truth? Anyway best of luck to Dreyfus, my heart breaks for him and also for the French military'