On art and Elders
Some years ago, President Barack Obama ruffled feathers when he used art history as an example of an unproductive — [...]
Parsing a Republican past
I grew up in Rockford, Illinois, in shouting distance of free-market guru Milton Friedman’s Chicago. The “Paleo-conservative” movement, focused largely [...]
Turn, turn, turn
It was a few days ago that I noticed it in the garden. Welcomed by the sun's heat, flashes of [...]
Forwarding the past
Last tine around I wrote about the pain of performing triage on a lifetime of possessions and my fear that [...]
The name of the past
Three years ago I packed up the contents of my Milan home and moved back to the United States. For [...]
The garment district
As restrictions on lockdowns lift, those who have enjoyed the last few months in perpetual pajamas or sweatpants may be [...]
10 minuti dentro un bar anni 70
Some sketchy amateur footage shot in an Italian bar in the 1970s stirs up nostalgia for columnist Madeleine Johnson.
Gold in a strange time
From her American vantage point, columnist Madeleine Johnson hails Italy's virus resolve and wishes she were in Milan to help.
Repairing to The Repair Shop
You can't always get what you want, wrote The Rolling Stones. But thanks to the BBC, columnist Madeleine Johnson found the next best thing.
One for Warren: The greening of a campaign worker
New Hampshire-based columnist Madeleine Johnson comes of political age by working for Elizabeth Warren.
Getting beyond the “British” war
With English-born director Sam Mendes’s film “1917” landing on movie screens the world over, I've been hearing variations on the [...]
Hitler was then, not now
Columnist Madeleine Johnson, tired of comparisons between today's America and Nazi days, turns to history for guidance.