The concrete and the divine

Contentedly snowed in last night, I was watching Bill Maher when he and his guest, Lawrence Krauss, laughed uproariously at the topic of a Newsweek cover about Dr. Eben Alexander’s book,  Proof of Heaven. Without even a glimmer of openness to anything Tina Brown...

The creativity-gumption combo

Today’s Game Plan is a bit of a hodge-podge.  A Newsweek cover story on the declining creativity in America, a bit of coffee-crusted steak from Food Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Obama speech writer Jon Favreau, Sania’s Brow Bar, Howard Stern....

Spinning forward

Into every meaningful social issue, a little Anna Quindlen logic must fall — The Loving Decision. This is a woman who made me a better columnist just by her example back in her days at The New York Times. This Newsweek piece on same-sex marriage gets it exactly...

From one writer to another

As a columnist, I have always been grateful to Anna Quindlen, who has forged a path that made mine a little easier. This week, her column in Newsweek is like a salve on an open wound, for it expressed what my uneasiness has been about the last week or so. It’s...