by Sheila Weller | Nov 6, 2021
Editor’s Note: Last month, UCLA announced that Barbra Streisand has donated funds to create the Barbra Streisand Institute, which will include four research centers–one in each of these fields: truth in the public sphere; the impact of climate change; the...
by Sheila Weller | Feb 19, 2021
Fifty years ago this week, Carly Simon’s self-titled debut album was released and with it she became a star. Here was a beautiful woman with a tawny, low-pitched, sometimes provocatively sharp and textured voice, an elite intellectual and fascinating background...
by Sheila Weller | Jul 12, 2017
The other day New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a well-meaning column bewailing segregation of the social classes in America. But right in the middle of it he popped out this whopper—which struck so many people as condescending that, in certain Facebook...