“Give me your wealthy, your rich, your huddled M.B.A.s yearning to be tax-free. Send these, your English-speaking, fully insured, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door! And lift my leg upon your filthy poor. P.S. No fatties, …
Last night we had the pleasure of indulging in a favorite summer tradition: attending The Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park with friends. We missed this season’s controversial Julius Caesar, but made it back to New York in time …
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. As we celebrate those words, …
The summer solstice arrived at 12:24 am EDT (4:24 GMT). On this longest day of the year, here are a few words to ponder by Tracy K. Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and just-announced next poet laureate of the U.S. …
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day: “Digging,” by Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks …
At 12 noon on January 20th, I was with the President. The 33rd President. I happened to be in Key West, where over 20 years earlier I’d really enjoyed a visit to Harry Truman’s Little White House. I decided to …
The chill is in the air. The last of those lingering summer-like days, swaddling afternoons with unseasonably warm temperatures, are behind us. The color is draining from the autumn leaves. The leaves are falling. At least they leave us with …
Let’s start with the color of the water. This is really what it looks like. No filter, no special effects. Just a snapshot on a regular old phone camera. Those blues and greens are real. We are celebrating the 100th …
Is it August already? We spend so much of our time looking to the future, writing about exciting performances that are coming up–later this year, sometime in 2017, there’s even been discussion of 2018!–that sometimes we forget to focus on …