Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend Christmas in the White House? As with most of us, home, especially now, is a wonderful refuge from the rest of the world and its attendant problems. All the more so, perhaps, if you could retreat to America’s first historic home. It must be a…
“A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands for the general anxiety is greater.” —Norman Mailer I. Norman Mailer once posited, in so many thousand words, that our greatest ally in making critical decisions in circumstances both highly consequential and immediately threatening is instinct.…
About twenty years or so ago you couldn’t really get a decent Italian dinner in this town. Can you now? More on that later perhaps. In Detroit, if you had a mad craving for linguine alla vongole it was Mario’s, or Giovanni’s, or bust. Don’t even get me started on Mario’s. I love the place, in a…