Norman Maclean Didn’t Publish Much. What He Did Contains Everything

Norman Maclean Didn’t Publish Much. What He Did Contains Everything

Aside from these two wildly different literary eminences, Maclean cared little for Dartmouth and escaped it as often as he could to go back to the Montana woods. By then, he had been not just playing but working in those woods for many years, beginning at fourteen, when he took a job in the logging … Read more

Why Liberals Struggle to Defend Liberalism

Why Liberals Struggle to Defend Liberalism

“Don’t mention the word ‘liberalism,’ ” the talk-show host says to the guy who’s written a book on it. “Liberalism,” he explains, might mean Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to his suspicious audience, alienating more people than it invites. Talk instead about “liberal democracy,” a more expansive term that includes John McCain and Ronald Reagan. When … Read more

Scooter Braun and the Twilight of the Music Manager

Scooter Braun and the Twilight of the Music Manager

On any day of the week, you might find Scooter Braun working his magic in a pair of vintage Reeboks. He has a love of superior kicks, and was among the high-profile investors in StockX, the “stock market for sneakers.” He’s now forty-two, but some of us can still picture him in 2006, a college … Read more