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World 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…
Read MoreThe Bicentennial +50 – Looking Back and Ahead
The Bicentennial was 50 years ago. Planning for it was contentious. We are now on the cusp of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, our semiquincentennial, if you…
Read MoreBlack History Month Is Canceled…
…at Harpers Ferry. The February calendar at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is blank. No events scheduled. Until after this Jan. 4, every Sunday featured an hour-long history talk (“The…
Read MoreThe End of the [Book] World
NOTE: Feb. 21, 2026 — It was a bittersweet night at the iconic indie bookstore Politics and Prose in Northwest DC…
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