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I was at the Dead Sea when I received a message with the news of McCarthy's passing last week. Never before in my 47 years of life have I experienced anything like it: it seemed uncanny and providential and borderline deranged that such news would reach me as I was drying off after swimming in...

I fear that people like Rushdie who condemn this affair on the basis of the link between censorship and totalitarianism still underplay how big of a problem it is. Totalitarianism is to be avoided if we can help it, but there are other outcomes that are to be avoided at all costs, such as the...

Patrick Süskind has written a brilliant short story on the very subjects of justice and chess. Track it down in case you haven't read it, I am sure you will enjoy it. Games of chance fascinate me precisely because they suspend the highly subjective and practically undefinable notion of justice...