Character Studies
- July 2020
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- June 2020
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3rd Jun 2020
There is a poignant irony in the death of Larry Kramer amid the ravages of a global plague. One of…
- December 2019
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28th Dec 2019
Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten were one of the most famous couples of the 20th century. “Dickie,” as he was…
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26th Dec 2019
Mel Boozer grew up in a series of homes without electricity. Graduating second in the 1963 class of Dunbar High,…
- November 2018
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18th Nov 2018
Back in the days when I worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, covering the politics and societies of a vast…
- June 2018
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21st Jun 2018
Howard Rosenman is a spielmeister, a storyteller, “not anything more, not anything less.” A producer of Father of the Bride,…
- May 2018
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5th May 2018
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst is the literary bard of modern British gay life. His 1987 debut, The Swimming Pool Library, tells…
- January 2018
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17th Jan 2018
Late in the fall of 2007, I called up an obscure radio host named Alex Jones. At the time, Jones…
- August 2017
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26th Aug 2017
In his fateful interview with Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, Steve Bannon’s remarks about taking a tougher stand on…
- June 2017
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14th Jun 2017
Linda Sarsour is a progressive-media darling. One of Essence magazine’s “Woke 100 Women,” Sarsour was named a leader of the…
About James
James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
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