a critic at large

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R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise

May 19, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was nine when his uncle was murdered and fourteen when his father was. Even in his youth, he recalled, he doubted that Oswald had acted alone. But, where his father…

The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker

May 5, 2025

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out what exactly he meant to create. The same is true,…