Today’s the first day of summer, and you know what that means? No! Not beaches, sunshine, and fireworks!! It means basketball’s over. So what do we do now? According to NBA funnyman LeBron James, it’s time for all of us to get back to the real world, and back to facing the same old problems  Read More

Around the time OLD SCHOOL, NEW SCHOOL was launched, I received the following e-mail from a reader: Great fun, but would be more relevant if the arguments were about greater issues. Clearly, the correspondent would prefer that we delve into topics such as hunger, poverty, global warming, the price of oil, race relations, and tension  Read More