4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (579+ words) Writing a novel after spending years writing nonfiction is no easy trick. Trust me, I know. My hard drive is littered with stories never shared. My next book, if I do finish it, will be another nonfiction tome. Completing a…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (145+ words) Big claims, surely. The outlines of the stories Siegel tells about the tools of information warfare being turned inward, using his journalistic background as well as his experience as a U.S. soldier, are enough to make someone sound like a crackpot....

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (673+ words) To Observant Jews, New York Times Cooking Offers a Pre-Passover Insult'freebeacon.com The New York Times food section is celebrating the Passover holiday by recommending a recipe for "matzo" that the newspaper itself acknowledges is not kosher for Passover. At…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (124+ words) Every society has an aristocracy, even those that deny or disparage the very idea, such as our own. The word derives from a Greek term roughly meaning "rule of the best" which, it goes without saying, means different things to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (193+ words) There is, of course, another reason: Most of the Hollywood Communists and Hollywood members of the party were Jewish! It was the same in New York City, where the two leading cultural apparatchiks, V.J. Jerome and screenwriter John Howard Lawson, flew…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1083+ words) Apart from his wife and lifelong coauthor Anne Ehrlich (with whom he published nearly a dozen books or pamphlets and many hundreds of articles), perhaps no other voice or personality is so closely associated with the postwar moral panic over…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (300+ words) Easy Way Luxury is a Miami-based chauffeur company that offers the "pinnacle of luxury and sophistication" to VIP clients "who demand the very best." One of its top customers is indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D., Fla.), who has spent more than…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (805+ words) New York City's controversial congestion pricing program, which charges drivers a toll to enter midtown and lower Manhattan, contains several "mitigation efforts" and carveouts designed to limit the punitive impact of the new tax on ethnic minorities'without offering the city's…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (211+ words) The People of the Book, it turns out, are also the people of the Teddy Bear, Barbie, and Batman. Legend has it that President Roosevelt himself gave permission for the bear to bear his name, in a note on White…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (497+ words) New York Times reporter Julia Moskin has what seems to be a pretty good story. The Times online headline definitely doesn't undersell it: "Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef's Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World's Top-Rated Restaurant." Nor does the subheadline:…...