Category: Features - Page 8 - The American Mag

Dead Dear

Dear is dead. Time for it to now as much as pack up two centuries of introductory conceit. Email’s telegraphic [...]

This may be too serious a subject for a humor column, but I think — stress think — there’s a [...]

I recently did something that I have wondered about—but also resisted—my entire life. I took an IQ test. I was [...]

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

Journalists miss civilian air crashes. They can’t and won’t tell you this, of course. That would be in macabre bad [...]

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

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

When I left Rome in 2007, I did so in furia e fretta. Harried. I was stuffing things into my [...]

Apologies to my progressive Trump-hating friends who see the re-election of the former president as a step toward American fascism, [...]

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

Slowly hauled toward adolescence, and later adulthood, as if by a weary stork eager to deposit me at the foot [...]