The language and rituals and customs of the old 'New Yorker' are fast being forgotten. Renata Adler, with her first book in fifteen years, is the Last of the Mohicans.

John Kennedy seemed to be breaking the family mold. But in our grief, we are discovering what 40 years of public fascination with the Kennedy clan was really all about.

Why is Al Gore media-challenged? Could it be that while he was trying to "make a difference," he never learned how to make a sale? The Democrats' pitch problem.

While everyone was waiting for one of the candidates to do the right thing, the Bush black-bag operation stole the election. Does anybody care?

There’s a reason big media has given Bush a pass on weapons of mass destruction, but it has to do with a Powell other than Colin. Plus: I love Tina Brown (really!).

What could possibly have made biographer Robert Caro devote nearly three decades (and counting) to chronicling the life of LBJ? It's all about his -- and our -- addiction to power.

The media are too self-obsessed? Well, then how are we supposed to cover a story where we're the targets?

At TED, the new-media version of a Mafia wedding, you rub elbows with the dons and capos of the Internet world and become an instant member of the family.

Put a couple of middlebrow programming execs in a dumbed-down, all-reality-all-the-time network television environment, and does hilarity ensue? Just ask Jeff Zucker and Susan Lyne.

For faithful followers of brilliant careerist Walter Isaacson's brilliant career, what's to be learned from his leaving CNN? Maybe that everyone at AOL should run for the nearest exit.