A rambling article begins with the question, “What’s the best place for young men’s health care?” The author—-despite the seeming fact that he’s never visited one of their clinics, and without any reference to the health and life of the very youngest of men and women—-decides that the answer is not, say, a real hospital that offers full healthcare services but rather Planned Parenthood.
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…