Why Are they Killing Public Schools?

For all New York families who calved in 2006–and therefore have a kindergarten-aged child–this is notification week for public kindergarten. This is not as easy as just signing up for your local, zoned school. Either the school down the block has been totally abandoned and fallen into disgrace, or there are lotteries and waiting lists …

Done and Done: Theodore gets hitched

As I have written about earlier, Tomoko and I got engaged, following the decision by Harper’s Magazine that it was time for her to make an honest man of me. Yesterday, as it happens, was the day of the blessed event, and as is fitting, I immediately sat down to enshrine it in the annals of …