David Matthews Portable Bohemia

One take on the Arbery trial comes down to the glass is half empty and what remains is poisoned. The guilty verdict is downplayed and...

The outcome of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was in no way surprising. Nor were reactions from sundry quarters of the political landscape. I...

I stand accused by the Pew Research Center of being an establishment liberal. This calumny cannot pass unremarked. Talk about...

Tuesday's election results were disappointing but not surprising. As Charlie Sykes put it, why can't we beat these guys? You know, these...

The Sinema affair at Arizona State University was a minor kerfuffle that nonetheless illustrates Joe Biden's penchant for speaking off...

I take a break from half-baked cogitation and its attendant scribbling about surrealism and me, or some such, to recommend a recently...

I give Joe Biden generally good marks for the early days of a presidency that faced multiple crises from the moment he took the oath of...

Students at the University of Wisconsin struck a resounding blow against racism with their successful campaign to remove a 42-ton boulder...

Kenneth Rexroth wrote that James Baldwin's book The Fire Next Time (1963) "is designed to make white liberals feel terribly guilty and to...

In April the University of North Carolina's Hussman School of Journalism and Media announced that Nikole Hannah-Jones would join its...

News coverage of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank tends to focus on Hamas raining rockets down on Israel and Israel in turn bombing the...

Liz Cheney and I share little common ground. For the most part a vast chasm lies between us. Cheney contributed to the authoritarian...

The jury's verdict of guilty on all counts in the Derek Chauvin trial should have come as no surprise. The prosecution had a strong case...

In a spirit of inquisition the puritan left roots out heretics who are insufficiently woke. In that same spirit the MAGA faithful wage...

Last night a mob spray-painted grafitti, smashed windows, and set fires at the Mark Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland in...

The Hound of Heaven is on its own trail, and the vestige still lures the scent of a foregone conclusion. —Benjamin Paul Blood. Blood...

Today I picked up a mystery set in Belfast in 1982. It opens with the discovery of a torso, chopped off at shoulders and knees, stuffed...

Yesterday our nihilists celebrated the inauguration of Joe Biden by attacking police and vandalizing Democratic Party of Oregon...

I ran the Wednesday seven after taking in the inauguration of our new president. The morning was cold, 33 degrees when I set out a little...

President-elect Joe Biden and a host of voices from the commentariat and punditocracy have joined me in dubbing Wednesday's assault on...