Opinion

In the spring of 2001, I watched the clean-living-Americans-go-to-outer-space movie “The Right Stuff” and decided what I needed was to learn how to pilot a plane.

John Steinbeck and Cannery Row East.

Whenever I give a lecture and someone asks me why so many Jews went like sheep to the slaughter during the Holocaust, the question sets my teeth on edge.

A bill sponsored in the State Legislature by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. may represent the beginning of a big step forward on easing the region’s attainable housing crisis.

In just one day last week I was inspected and boosted, and soon I’ll be implanted as well.

Important decisions are being made behind closed doors and without the full village board’s knowledge.

The East Hampton Town Trustees eventually had to take on the question of a scholarship named for William J. Rysam, an enslaver of other human beings.

I never liked the happy-clappy bright yellow of spring’s early buds.

What exactly is the far right trying to “save” New York from?

An aptly described monster is rising over Ditch Plain.

Despite a late start in coming up with new rules for East Hampton Airport, the town appears to be making progress.

This year the fun was bled right out of TurboTax.

In praise of cards and board games, pastimes with staying power.

Thomas Piketty thinks we’re heading toward more equality should the wealth be spread around a bit more.

I had a realization, of sorts, swimming in the warm water off Puerto Rico last week.

Even when I was a punk-rock teenager of 15 and 16, I kept a carefully curated vanity table, my bottles of drugstore body lotion and mail-order pins and badges displayed like a still life, like a Joseph Cornell assemblage.

For a few weeks now, we have been thinking about what ails some of our beloved local institutions.

With few exceptions, eastern Long Island’s school boards do not accurately reflect the demographic makeup of their districts.

Notes on life in a small plane.

If we’re interested in reducing the strain on our interdependent world amid this devastating conflict, it’s worth considering a more mundane response: conservation of resources.

It is depressing to think that war, nuclear weaponry, and oceans clogged with plastic will be our legacy to coming generations.

I’m glad my daughter is finally getting into thrifting.

A researcher seeking the East Hampton Town Trustees’ blessing for a pollutants study in Accabonac Harbor said that there was little scientific basis for many of town, county, and state initiatives.

A cable TV search for something to watch. Something other than ads.

Poor confused Will Smith.

Details of a plot by allies of former President Donald J. Trump and Mr. Trump himself to overturn the results of the 2020 election are increasingly coming to light.

Sag Harbor Village is the big city for me. 

Of late, I have gotten interested in a psychological aspect of cleaning.

It was at Theater 80 that I received my education in Barbara Stanwyck and Greer Garson.

Why are easy-to-enforce local laws ignored every single day of the year?