Hello there, dear readers. Apologies for not posting in some time. I’ll post a longer update when I’m lucid — it’s 1:27 a.m. and I’m knee-deep in my second viewing […]

I keep a note on my iPhone of passages I like. Passages from writers such as Junot Diaz, Mary McCarthy, John Green, Ann Beattie. Quite a few people. (An aside: […]

You can find the entirety of my National Review writings here, a collection of some ninety pieces on Congress and the 2016 campaigns — House, Senate and presidential. Some of […]

West Side Rag 10/11/2014 The Upper West Side was his before it was mine. He took me there for the first time when I was 18, to the two-bedroom apartment […]

Harper’s BAZAAR 4/10/2014 The essential screenings to catch next week, plus where to shop, eat, drink, and relax between them. (Courtesy Photo)

National Review Online 9/6/2012 As my study-abroad roommate and I went searching for a taxicab in Beijing in shin-deep water on July 20, I didn’t think it was so bad. […]