Yale Daily News

At last, the worst-kept secret in British politics is out: It was announced earlier this week that there will be a General Election on May […]

April 7, 2005

As I noted on Jan. 14, 2004, “If I’m still writing about President Bush in February next year, Chicken Licken and friends may have to […]

February 4, 2005

My editor begged me not to write about the election. She pleaded that she was drowning under the weight of Op-Eds on the subject and […]

October 28, 2004

The Booker Prize is, in theory, the leading award for fiction in the English language by writers outside America. The novelist Tibor Fischer, short-listed in […]

October 13, 2004

Among the two or three interesting things I did over the summer was my discovery of a Web site called politicalcompass.org. Apologies to those of […]

September 22, 2004

Of all the trans-Atlantic chasms that cannot be bridged, patriotism is one of the widest. To Europeans who pride themselves on sophistication and nuance, the […]

September 8, 2004

How the Bible would have opened if God were a woman: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was […]

April 21, 2004

As Judy Garland famously noted, there’s no place like home. I always enjoy going home, even if I discover upon my return that not only […]

March 29, 2004

Welcome back to the Year of the Monkey. No, that isn’t low-grade satire, it’s a reference to Chinese astrology. And for all you Horses (1978 […]

January 14, 2004

It’s amazing what you find when you either aren’t looking for it or don’t need it. Take this helpful piece of advice from a Web […]

November 6, 2003

Okay, all together now –“The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years!” Don’t pretend you […]

October 23, 2003