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New York Times Book Review | September 3, 2006 MY friends Jenny and Greg were still digesting the news that Jenny was pregnant with triplets when, only moments later, their fertility doctor sat them down. After recounting the many things that might go wrong in a triple pregnancy, he said, “You really should consider reducing.” Overwhelmed…
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The Atlantic | July/August 2006 BOIL AWAY the verbiage, and Americans’ reaction to Iran’s apparent drive for nuclear weapons amounts to: “Oh, no!” It’s a reasonable reaction. A bitter enemy appears determined to acquire fearsome weapons, or the capability to produce them (which comes to the same thing). A preventive military strike might do little…
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National Journal | August 12, 2006 CHALMETTE, LA. — By the time water encroached on the Chalmette Medical Center parking lot, the worst of Hurricane Katrina was over. Upstairs on the second floor, Dr. Bryan Bertucci had spent a sleepless night admitting emergency cases, taking medical histories, conducting physicals. That job done, he caught an…
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The Atlantic | June 2006 PRESIDENT CARTER ducked the presidential debate of September 21, 1980, but Ronald Reagan and John Anderson, the independent candidate, were on hand for a revealing exchange. The question was whether Reagan’s proposed tax cuts, if not balanced by spending reductions, would fuel inflation. Anderson thought so: “I have been very…
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The New York Times | June 4, 2006 WE feared for our lives; we prayed for a remedy. What none of us in the gay world imagined, when word of a mysterious affliction surfaced 25 years ago, was what proved to be the epidemic’s most important moral legacy: AIDS transformed the gay-marriage movement from implausible…
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National Journal | April 1, 2006 “AND now, polygamy,” sighs Charles Krauthammer, in a recent Washington Post column. It’s true. As if they didn’t already have enough on their minds, Americans are going to have to debate polygamy. And not a moment too soon. For generations, taboo kept polygamy out of sight and out of mind in…
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The Atlantic | March 2006 ARIEL SHARON could boast of as daring a military and political career as anybody since Andrew Jackson, but he saved his biggest surprise for late in the game. The champion of the Right conquered the Israeli center. In doing so, he transformed Israeli politics. More than that, he showed the…
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National Journal | July 30, 2005 IN JUNE, conservatives howled when the Supreme Court upheld the right of New London, Conn., to condemn an entire neighborhood in order to make room for private development. House Republicans, in particular, took turns denouncing the Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London. Among them was Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.…
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The New Republic | May 30, 2005 IN 2003, when a bare majority of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the state to recognize gay marriages, the three dissenting judges based their opposition largely on children. “It is difficult to imagine a State purpose more important and legitimate than ensuring, promoting, and supporting an optimal…
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The Atlantic Monthly | January/February 2005 ….. Have fear, Americans. Ours is a country divided. On one side are those who divide Americans into two sides; on the other are all the rest. Yes, America today is divided over the question of whether America is divided. All right, I’m joking. But the joke has a…