Writer

David L. Golding

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Cambridge Is Not Expanding

In a classic vignette from Annie Hall, Woody Allen recalls a farcical episode from his childhood where his mother drags


Mourning Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russian novelist and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died last month at the age of 89. A celebrated author, his series of


Puritanical America, J’Accuse!

French President Nicolas Sarkozy—renegade Gallic right-winger and scourge of les pouvoirs-qui-sont —campaigned on an image as the ruthless reformer of


A Time For Glory

Oh, the dilemma. As I loitered in the Dunster House Common Room for the final innings of game four, surrounded


TOME RAIDER: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

It is sadly common enough for students of literature who harbor a passion for philosophy to find their curiosity rebuffed


Life Kills

Terrorism, it turns out, is a many-headed beast. A raving, hirsute lunatic making tiresome home-videos in his medieval cave has


An American Patriot in Paris

Spending the Fourth of July in France is an eerie phenomenon for an American, disquieting in its silence, its indifference,


The Truth in Progress

Even among soi-disant “progressives,” the idea of progress is out of vogue these days, either written off as a relic