Gerald Nachman

You may have noticed that this year’s trendy trauma is bullying, which replaces last year’s obesity. The year before that it was ADD syndrome and I think the year before that it was dyslexia, or maybe it was lactose intolerance…

Scores of financiers on Wall Street and at brokerage firms around the country have quickly surrendered in the face of further protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement. “We know when we’re beat,” said C. Lance Sherman III, seen leaving…

I missed the Occupation of Europe by a few years so I’m delighted to have an opportunity to Occupy America. Hey, it’s a start. Today America, tomorrow China! Critics of Occupy Wall Street (also Boston, Denver, Oakland, Dubuque, etc.) claim…

MAYBE it helps to have grown up in unassuming Oakland—gritty, middle-class, unpretentious Oakland—to see San Francisco a bit more clearly than its dewy-eyed citizenry, who tend to view themselves as America’s chosen people. After leaving Oakland, and grinding away 10…

Polls show that Americans are getting angrier at just about everything, so it’s getting harder for my anger to be heard above the surrounding cries of outrage. Sometimes I’m not merely angry, I’m furious. There are days I can hardly…

I’ve always considered myself a law-abiding citizen who plays by the rules, so imagine my shock when I was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury for various culinary crimes. The full transcript appears below: District Attorney: Mr. Nachman, you…

Old films are America’s home movies. Nothing is more richly compelling than the cultural ore found in films from the past, and it isn’t just because I now qualify as a relic myself; they’ve always grabbed me. Many a mediocre…

Psychotherapists everywhere are worried that America — indeed, much of the English-speaking viewing audience — may not be able to cope in a post-Oprah world when she leaves her famous daily television show this week after a quarter century of…

Cursive handwriting will no longer be taught in several elementary schools, according to a recent New York Times story, plus which job marketers now question the need for a college education when it’s so hard to find work no matter…

With Arnold Schwarzenegger’s confession that he fathered an illegitimate child 10 years ago with the family housekeeper, Republicans appear to have pulled ahead of Democrats, temporarily, in the randy politicians’ race for oblivion. Just a few days earlier, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,…