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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed... →
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next... →
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a... →
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most... →
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for... →
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business... →
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really... →
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to... →
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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