Posts by Gene Meyer
Black History Month 2019 — Juneteenth 2026
Note: This was published in Newsday more than seven years ago with the headline “When race does not matter.” I’m not sure I love the headline, because in fact race…
Read MoreThe Jackson Heights Saga Continues
“The future of New York is Queens.” — Gary Shteyngart, New York Times, Dec. 28, 2025 While still living in Jackson Heights, Queens, at age five, I came down with…
Read More“The Last Square Class”
Go, Bulldogs! We were, said Robert Canosa, the assistant principal and chief disciplinarian, “the last square class.” We were the Roslyn High School, Long Island, New York, Class of 1960.…
Read MoreWorld Capital Germania
Haunting echoes of the past. In his book Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945, author Ian Buruma writes about Hitler’s grand plan to remake the city into the World Capital Germania. It…
Read MoreHail to the Passing Generation: R.I.P.
Recently, the comments on my Washington Post partums list-serv, which grew exponentially in February with the abrupt firing of up to 300 from the newsroom, have had two main themes:…
Read More“All the President’s Men” 50 years on
The New York Times recalls the film and era, and so do I. It’s ironic that a retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film b”All the President’s…
Read MoreDecluttering Andre Previn
My mother Emma Lampert Meyer died in May 1998, just shy of 90. Part of her legacy was her, shall we say, archives. Which wound up at our house —…
Read MorePlay ball! Washington Post Update.
During the depths of the pandemic, there was one bright spot come spring. Baseball was back! Fans couldn’t actually attend games, but they could watch them on cable. The ballpark…
Read MoreProfiles in Courage. Where are they today?
So U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has a new book. It’s called Stand, and it offers a cautiously optimistic view of our dark time by harking back to individuals from…
Read MoreKeeping Posted
Bezos wants clickbait! More departures. Forget the seven principles enunciated by my namesake Eugene Meyer The Washington Post’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos made it clear to a select group of Post people he…
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