Bath
How Mitt Romney Genuinely Fired Up His Followers
Romney's Veteran Problem
[Guest post by Thomas Stackpole] READ MORE >>
The Great American Argument
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 - 1788 By Pauline Maier (Simon & Schuster, 589 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
Was Creigh Deeds's Fatal Error Being Himself?
Whenever I read the words, "You're not from around here, are you?" I automatically imagine them being said with a serious Southern--or at least rural--twang. This election year in Virginia, though, I think that expression has a decidedly suburban lilt--as it's the overwhelming sentiment Creigh Deeds has encountered as he's trawled for votes in Northern Virginia. READ MORE >>
One town, one vote; Little Big Man
The Moral Baby
Wodehouse: A Life By Robert McCrum (W.W. Norton, 530 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>
A Few Ways of Pulling Apart a Poem
June comes, the end of a kind of year, And the thought of starting again with a new set of points And a full tank of whatever it is that makes Our own cranky old crate rattle on toward the scrapheap— This seedy thought Hobbles our way on its endless circuit, bearing Its regular summer line of beaches, parks, Mountains, canyons and islands with and without Bath. READ MORE >>
The Shipping Bottleneck
THE GREAT DAY arrives. “I christen thee Western Light!” the woman cries. The glass shatters against the hull, the blocks are pulled out; there is a cry from the crowd as the towering mass glides away, gathering speed until it rolls up the water, rocking until it comes to rest, a ship on the sea. READ MORE >>
