Best of 2011

The greatest thing about 2011 has been Occupy Wall Street. At last, the lie that everybody will be rich has been exposed: the one percent is getting richer and everybody

A Week of Loss

Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and Quintana Roo Dunne in Malibu, California A great deal of the meaning in Joan Didion’s work can be found in the space between the

Postcard from the Mario Savio Steps at Sproul Plaza

Mario Savio It has been a long time since I saw Sproul Plaza so full of cheering patriots. It was like this when I was in graduate school at Berkeley