Tag: Slate

• The broken presidency

  I love John Dickerson for the Slate Political Gabfest and his presidential history podcast, and now I love him for his recent cover story in The Atlantic about how the office of the presidency is broken and was so way before Trump: His central thesis is something I’ve thought about for a while: that the job…

  May 4, 2018

  Politics, Presidents

  Barack Obama, Donald Trump, John Dickerson, presidents, Slate

• Two Librarians Discuss: The Fault In Our Stars – Okay?

  Alyssa Vincent (Twitter) and I go way back to our college days, where we were fellow English majors and worked as co-editors-in-chief of our school newspaper. When we were emailing about her contributing to the second issue of the Simba Life Quarterly, I made an allusion to The Fault In Our Stars, which elicited a strongly…

  June 23, 2014

  Books, Film, Love

  Ansel Elgort, John Green, librarians, literature, review, Shailene Woodley, Slate, The Fault In Our Stars, The Spectacular Now