Always on the lookout for connections between baseball and politics, I was happy to see Jon Stewart mocking both the Obama and McCain campaigns for pandering to baseball fans. The most fair-weather of these fair-weather fans turns out to be . . . well, Sarah, of course.
Watch and laugh (or weep):
Could you tell that Jon is a Mets fan?
On the basis of some of the things that I've written here and elsewhere, I've been accused of being a Sexton "loyalist." Those who make that accusation don't know me very well. In particular, they fail to see just how a great a test of my cosmopolitan principles it is...
The New York Times has published a brief letter that I wrote in response to an op-ed piece entitled "The War in Washington Square" by my NYU colleague Jeff Goodwin, who is a professor of sociology. Here's the text of my letter as they published it: I have been working...
I'm a little less confused than I've been. In my post "Disagreeing with the Vote of No Confidence," I was struck by the number 682 -- the number of voters eligible to participate in last week's FAS vote of no confidence in President Sexton. I noted that "my wife, who...
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