Griffin Dunne’s memoir bobbed around the bestseller list after it was published in June, and though it’s since slipped off, my guess is the book will prove to have staying power. Like the life of the family he portrays with such affection and humor, The Friday Afternoon Club is divided into two parts. The first
I have been lunching monthly with Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, so I was particularly delighted to encounter, in this collection of his essays from 1978 to 2023, a description of our first meal together. The conversation, Joe recalled, turned to the cultural “theory” then fashionable in university English departments. “‘Of course I loathe
“History is bunk,” according to Henry Ford. But there is an irony to that quotation—the motor industries patriarch and presidential candidate did not say it. No, when asked about his views on foreign affairs in 1916 the isolationist plutocrat grumbled: What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t
If signed into law, such debt reported to agencies would be void and unenforceable. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is now considering a bill that would block credit agencies from reporting on medical debt. The proposal passed the Legislature on Aug. 28. Senate Bill 1061, introduced by Sen. Monique Limón, would prevent medical debt from appearing
When Vice President Kamala Harris emerged onto a rally stage in Milwaukee for the first time as a presidential candidate on July 23, the song “Freedom” by Beyoncé—her new campaign anthem—erupted from the speaker system. The song was more than a way to energize audiences—the title would be the rallying cry of Harris’ pitch to
Electrical linemen—highly-trained and well-paid—are needed in the next decade to power-up a rapidly expanding grid. Billy Lang is a commercial truck driver, medic, tree-trimmer, pole-climber, high-wire engineer, and whatever else it takes to keep the lights on. Lang, 33, of New Milford, Connecticut, is a Class B Journeyman Lineman, one of about 120,000 who tend
‘He wasn’t one of the coaches that yells and screams,’ said David Schoettler, a defensive tackle on the Mankato West High School football team in 1999. David Schoettler, a defensive tackle on the Mankato West High School football team in Mankato, Minnesota, failed to make a tackle as the offense scored a touchdown during a