As a high school student in New York, I used to think school was a place for learning, discovery, and growth. Lately, though, it feels like something has changed. Instead of focusing on academics, schools are putting more and more…
Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a…
I discovered Jana Hocking and now realize I’ve been in the wrong profession for twenty years. Jana Hocking is a sex and relationships columnist at the New York Post. Her articles chronicle flings, pubs, parties, lovers, seductive messages, and heartbreak….
Comeback tours aren’t just for washed-up rock stars. They’re for washed-up politicians, too. This fact is not lost on Andrew Cuomo. The gravelly-voiced former governor is officially running for mayor, betting that New Yorkers still have an appetite for his…
There’s nothing more predictable than progressives in power finding new ways to tax the middle class under the guise of reducing Manhattan traffic or solving a crisis. New York’s congestion pricing scheme is the latest offender, a cash grab masquerading…
The two largest cities in the United States are Los Angeles and New York City. Both are dominated by Democrats and, last week, both provided excellent case studies in negligence and corruption. In the City of Angels, dereliction of duty…
As the NYC mayoral race enters high gear, the smart money is on Eric Adams abandoning a run in the Democratic primary and instead taking on the 2021 GOP Mayoral standard bearer Curtis Sliwa for the Republican line in November….
The 2021 fall of Kabul and the 2024 fall of Damascus should give a lesson to the state governments of New York and California. In Afghanistan and Syria privileged elites in the capitals lost touch with the people they were…
I never cease to be amazed by Angelinos out here who muse that they wish they had public transportation as New York City has. Imagine: No need for a car. No need for traffic jams on the 134, the 101,…
