On The Eve Of The First Democratic Debates

On The Eve Of The First Democratic Debates

June 26th, 2019 | General, Politics, Society at Large

Twenty-four? Twenty-five? The special supplement to The New York Times lists twenty-two. And I thought seven candidates was a lot in 1992. The first “debates”—which is to say the first round of televised statements sanctioned by the Democratic National Party—will...
A Tale Of Two Funerals

A Tale Of Two Funerals

September 4th, 2018 | General, Memory, Politics

I remember my mother glued to our old black-and-white television in November 1963 and Kennedy’s funeral procession as it wended its way ultimately to Arlington National Cemetery. I watched some of it—I was eleven—and remember the views of the caisson and the riderless...