PRESIDENT AA?

Several readers have noticed that, in his interview with Frank Bruni, President Bush’s avowal to deal with the things he can change, live with the things he cannot and know how to tell the difference is uncannily similar to the pledge of Alcoholics Anonymous. Well, good for W. Maybe there’s some zone of privacy and anonymity after all – even for a president.

HOME NEWS: As part of our continuing house-cleaning in advance of our redesign, my 1999 piece, “What’s So Bad About Hate?,” a cover-story for the New York Times Magazine, is now up on the site. You can read it here or in the Culture section of the Greatest Hits. It’s also included in “The Best American Essays 2000.”