The 'rents

Emma Koenig has an amusing, well-executed  blog . But you'd never know it from that Home and Garden section (?) profile , which can be s...

"[A] single variant – right-wing Zionism – has come to stand for the whole."

[M]ost Zionists use the term to describe not the expansionist desire to control the entire biblical land of Israel, but the more modest clai...

Equal-opportunity romance

Amber brings our attention  - and Dan Savage brought our attention - to a post  by Jos about why women who say they only date women or tran...

Acculturation fail

Today began with a vaguely Greek-looking man in front of my husband at a bakery having trouble ordering, and the person behind the counter a...

Price upon request

On one of yesterday's countless canine-walks, I was listening to an interview with Christopher Hayes, the author whose book on elites re...

Busybodies or gun control

-In light of the discussion below , it perhaps bears mentioning that the latest perpetrator-of-American-tragedy is 24, and so a child accord...

Woof

So, as you may have gathered, I'm across the Atlantic once again. Readers expecting vicarious 'I summer abroad' may be disappoin...