Everything I Love About America Is Fragile.

Where Past Generations Had Film Cameras, Scrapbooks, Notebooks, And That Part Of The Brain Which Stores Memories, We Now Have A Smartphone App For Every Conceivable Recording Need. The Thing Is, All That Time You Spend Logging And Then Curating The Quotidian Aspects Of Your Daily Life Is Time Taken Away From Actually Doing Things.

In An Age When All That Was Old Seems New Again, Bernard Devoto's The Hour Couldn't Have Made A More Timely Reappearance. This Book Reminds Me Of One Of The Joys Of Being An Adult-cocktail Hour!

We Admire Elephants In Part Because They Demonstrate What We Consider The Finest Human Traits: Empathy, Self-awareness, And Social Intelligence. But The Way We Treat Them Puts On Display The Very Worst Of Human Behavior.

Christopher Hitchens Was A Wit, A Charmer, And A Troublemaker, And To Those Who Knew Him Well, He Was A Gift From - Dare I Say It - God.

There Are Similarities Between Being An Editor And A Tailor. Tailors Have A Vast Supply Of Fabrics, Buttons And Thread At Their Disposal And Put It Together To Make A Whole. That's What An Editor Does - Looks At Society At A Given Time And Pulls Together The Interesting Aspects Into A Single Issue Each Month.