Four Takes: Looking back on Woodstock, The Boston Sunday Globe
August 22, 2019 The old joke goes that if you remember Woodstock, you were not there. I was not there, in the sense usually meant. Most...
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Four Takes: Location, location, location, The Boston Sunday Globe
July 21, 2019 The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building still unfortunately dominates most peopleʼs conception of...
Four Takes: Out of the closet, into the fray: Stonewall revisited, The Boston Sunday Globe
Earlier this month, Boston’s 49th Pride Parade drew tens of thousands to the city, and went off happily hitchless. As for several years...
Four Takes: Lifetime job insecurity in the gig economy, The Boston Sunday Globe
May 23, 2019 Hundreds of thousands of Americans joined a nationwide strike supporting an eight-hour work day on May 1, 1886. A few days...
Four Takes: Deadly deluges of human folly, The Boston Sunday Globe
April 18, 2019 Recent flooding in the Midwest brought frightening images into blessedly dry living rooms. It also brought a sense of déjà...
Four Takes: Through the eyes of a refugee, The Boston Sunday Globe
March 29, 2019 Emergency or not, what’s happening at the US border with Mexico concerns all Americans. But dilemmas about how many...
Four Takes: The decline and rise of Malcolm X, The Boston Sunday Globe
February 24, 2019 It could be said that the spiritual journey of Malcolm X began with copying the dictionary. “Aardvark,” he would recall...
Four Takes: Think concerns about privacy are new? Think again, The Boston Sunday Globe
December 21, 2018 I recently acquired a vintage postcard depicting a lake in Minnesota. On the back is a note written by Magnus Johnson...
Four Takes: At the centenary of its end, World War I through a prism, The Boston Sunday Globe
NOVEMBER 15, 2018 Since its conclusion 100 years ago this month, World War I has spawned innumerable books bent on sorting through the...
Four Takes: If you want to know what what happened to the left, look at Wisconsin, The Boston Globe
GLOBE CORRSEPONDENT OCTOBER 26, 2018 If the states are the laboratories of democracy, Wisconsin has been smashing all the test tubes....
‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties, The Wall Street Journal
Théodore Géricault used the iconic animal to capture his tumultuous world on paper and canvas. M.J. Andersen Sept. 8, 2018 No one will...
Four Takes: What you really learned in college, The Boston Sunday Globe
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST 17, 2018 Some 20 million students will shortly flock to US colleges, roughly a fifth of them for the first...
Four Takes: Why solitude is not a bad thing, The Boston Sunday Globe
GLOBE CORRESPONDENT JULY 20, 2018 Consider Montaigne. We have been told, often, that the one-time mayor of Bordeaux was our first great...
‘French Pastels: Treasures From the Vault’ Review: Delicate and Delightful, The Wall Street Journal
July 14, 2018 Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts presents works by Degas, Millet and others, rarely shown due to the fragility of their...
Four Takes: Figuring out our Fathers, Boston Sunday Globe 6.21.18
Most of us spend a lifetime trying to read our fathers. Absent or overbearing, loving or cruel, they can bind us to an unceasing riddle....
‘Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943- 55’ Review: Creativity in the Shadow of War The Wall Street Journal
April 18, 2018 Cambridge, Mass. At some point during World War II, Juro Kubicêk picked up a copy of “Mein Kampf” and set about revising...
Four Takes: Recalling the birth of environmentalism, Boston Sunday Globe 4.21.18
Along with enough bacteria to fill a large soup can, the average American unwittingly carries around the ideas of William Vogt. Born in...
Art Review: Ellsworth Kelly’s Monument to Joy
Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin, the only building he ever designed, is a luminous high-art temple. The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2018...
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