Tag Archives: The New Yorker

Fleeting Fashions Leave an Ugly Footprint

Posted on 12/03/2025 by paulefallon

I caught Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at the Super Bowl last year. I saw a guy in jeans and a jacket, with backup dancers wearing red, white and blue shirts. Apparently, I missed a lot. Lamar’s $1200 jeans, design from … Continue reading →

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Questioning the Language of Solidarity

Posted on 10/25/2023 by paulefallon

“In a broader sense, I know what happened to Iishea Stone: a luminous and extraordinary woman was failed repeatedly—by her family’s pathologies, by poverty, and by a social safety net that couldn’t seem to catch her, Had Iishea grown up … Continue reading →

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TURTLES

Posted on 09/06/2023 by paulefallon

As the world revs up to back-to-work and back-to-school, I want to share this delightful—and sage—piece written by E.B White (author of Charlotte’s Web and other books). It was first published in The New Yorker on January 31, 1953. We … Continue reading →

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Insatiable Want

Posted on 09/21/2022 by paulefallon

“Why is a man who is winning as much as Sam Alito is so furious?” That line—deep into Margaret Talbot’s profile of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in the September 5, 2022 edition of The New Yorker—jumped out at me. … Continue reading →

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Summer Solstice Celebration of Bicycles!

Posted on 06/21/2022 by paulefallon

“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.” John Howard, Olympic cyclist, set a speed record of 152.2 mph in 1985 It’s the longest day of the year up here beyond 42 degrees north. The weather is … Continue reading →

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The Money Issue

Posted on 06/16/2021 by paulefallon

If there’s a shred of doubt in your mind that the United States is in the throes of endgame empire, look no further than The New Yorker June 7, 2021: The Money Issue. Every issue of The New Yorker follows … Continue reading →

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The Long Blue Line

Posted on 07/29/2020 by paulefallon

“It shall not be lawful for any negroe or other slave to carry or arme himself with any club, staffe, gunn, sword or any other weapon of defense or offence, nor to goe or depart from his masters ground without … Continue reading →

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