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Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Farewell to NYC

Our new house in Stone Ridge, NY provides a perfect setting for pursuing my current front-burner project, the various permutations of the Capa D-Day investigation, while organizing my papers and other professional materials into a coherent archive for eventual deposit with an appropriate institution. […]

Farewell to Billie the Bengal

Long-time and regular readers of this blog may remember our cat Billie, who made occasional appearances in my posts, serving as a mascot of sorts for it. She joined our household on May 9, 2012, exactly ten years to the day before her unexpected departure therefrom. […]

Spring Ahead: Bits & Pieces 2022 (1)

If, as seems quite possible now, the hubristic ineptitude of a mediocre ex-KGB officer brings post-Soviet Russia to its knees and reveals it as a second-class power, you could serve up slices of that irony (without air quotes) at summer cookouts across the free world and have people queuing for seconds right up through Labor Day weekend. […]

Scratch a Good American: Anti-Semitism in the USSR (1988)

“Scratch a good American,” says the Oriole,” “and you’ll find a good German.” Ari had just scratched a good American. […]

Cabin Fever: Bits & Pieces 2022 (1)

Prediction for 2022: The inherently poisonous effect of social media will become ever more obvious. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg has any degree of influence over the survival of democracy will finally become understood as terrifying. […]