More on Alice Goffman’s On The Run

Alice Goffman has posted a response to my review of On the Run, and I have replied in The New Republic.  Here are the first few paragraphs my TNR article, which includes…

Ethics On The Run

My review of Alice Goffman’s On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City was posted today on The New Rambler Review (an online journal edited by Eric Posner, Adrian ...

More on PEN/Hebdo

The New York Times reports today that six writers have agreed to be “table hosts” at the presentation of the PEN courage award to Charlie Hebdo, replacing six who had…

PEN and Charlie Hebdo

On Tuesday, the writers’ organization PEN will present its Toni and James C. Goodale Free Expression Courage Award to the survivors of the Charlie Hebdo attack.  Many prominent authors have…

The Ten Commandments in Arkansas

The forces of religion were temporarily disappointed when Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson insisted (at the behest of Walmart and other employers) on a gay-tolerant amendment to the state’s Religious Freedom ...

UCLA — The Backstory

She is “a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community,” worried an elected member of the UCLA student government, as she prepared to vote against the nomination of ...