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The war in Gaza presents critical thinkers with keen and complex dilemmas, many brought to the fore by fierce anti-Israel [...]

Beach life came with pleasures and admonishments, the latter (including the widespread failure to venerate my castle projects) I simply [...]

In June of 1959 my favorite beach car was made by a company called Nash. I came upon my favorite [...]

The place where the boardwalk ended, a carpet of stitched-together matchsticks surrendering to endless, disinterred sand, seemed to me like [...]

My family’s annual June sojourns at the Wilmington Avenue cottage in the resort by the sea covered four years, from [...]

Nostalgia is a congenital liar. It makes gilded that which was not. I take as examples my seventy-something Italian friends [...]

I talk to the birds at night. These are laughing gulls that comb the beaches of the Mediterranean coastline [...]

In his near-desperate quest to regain the American presidency Donald Trump differs from many of his predecessors. He not only [...]

Half a trip to the American lunatic fringe came with Donald Trump’s unlikely flirtation with the idea of running for [...]

In August 1968 my father ferried me from Washington to New York and deposited me on a nonstop Pan Am [...]

In the summer of 1969, I do not remember precisely when, I returned to the resort by the sea with [...]