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Anti-Social Work
I’ve always been proud to be a son of social workers—’60s activists who made good on their idealism. My Dad was a frontline case worker taking his…
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A Letter From Back Home
As I cut ties with the progressive establishment to launch The Ivy Exile, I wondered how much hate mail to expect. But, gratifyingly, real humans not…
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Indiana Jones and the Indefinite Culture War
Forget Star Wars, forget Hulkamania and the Ninja Turtles—for me, growing up in the early ’90s, it was always Indiana Jones. More specifically, Raiders…
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Springsteen's Great Forgetting
Was pleased to make the cover of the Washington Examiner Magazine this past weekend… I once inadvertently torpedoed a budding relationship when I told…
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Positively Discrimination
As my Dad always explained it—he was a New Left O.G. turned wizened social worker—affirmative action worked like this. Imagine planting the same sort of…
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Renegade Centrism
At the risk of sounding hippy-dippy, the right and left need each other—the right, to get shaken out of its complacency and fatalism; and the left, to…
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Above The Law
Even as a progressive Democrat at Brown and later in public broadcasting and academia, I was never crazy about Barack Obama. It was certainly time to…
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The Ivy Exile
Redemption of a recovering flack. Ex-Brown/PBS/Columbia. Somewhere between Manhattan and America.
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