Opinion

It seems to me that we Americans assume that the things we surround ourselves with are made not by actual people, but through some form of immaculate extrusion.

It’s 2021 and the voices of artificial intelligence that call our landlines attempting grand larceny never sound as human as Hal 9000 did.

Now comes word that Facebook’s leadership knew the harm that it and its apps did and that, far from being something they tried to stop, it was the company’s business model.

Good times, literally and figuratively, at a massive college cross-country meet in an unlikely place — the National Warplane Museum in northwestern New York.

On Columbus Day weekend, revisiting Philip Roth’s breakthrough collection with an eye on identity politics.

With voting to begin in three weeks in an important election cycle, a promising change to the way the East Hampton Town Trustees will be chosen is ahead.

Someone said that he thought it was the last day of summer, but there was too much going on to reflect then upon the waning light.

There is a deepening frustration with the East End’s direction.

How pleasant it must have been to be an inhabitant of that now-distant Cheever America of General Electric affluence, Buicks and Panasonics, and 10,000 swimming pools.

There’s a qualitative difference in pleasure between typing names into the YouTube search box and sheer happenstance over the airwaves.

The more people learn about roosters, the more they will appreciate them and want them to have full lives. They will even develop positive attitudes toward their crowing.

A measure passed in the New York State Legislature could radically change how affordable housing projects on the East End are funded.

“We’ll always have the Wyndham Greencastle Super 8.”

So far I have spent only one night aboard Cerberus, as my work on it continues.

Deep down, I’ve always been an Anglophile.

Some leeway in the community preservation fund law may have to be found for Fisher’s dream house to be used as an event space, as in for weddings.

When grackles attack.

The problem these days is not just the quantity of the traffic, it’s the quality.

On Oct. 15, the village board will take comments on a proposal that would mandate property-maintenance standards.

Help comes for a car that gives up the ghost.

Early voting is only a month away in an important East Hampton Town Board election, but the real issues remain difficult to sort out.

This is the time when the fledged osprey learn to fend for themselves

Nothing is cozier and more hygge to me than the East Hampton Library. The library and I go way back.

Building is out of control in the Town of East Hampton and is changing cherished neighborhoods in the blink of an eye.

A podcast explores the collaborative process of making a story.

Mike Gordon was a dear friend I had met on the softball field in Bridgehampton. The melding of machismo and kindness in one man was irresistible.

In 2015, when East Hampton Village officials took on a growing trend of extra-large residential basements, their concern was that the extra living space brought with it a range of complications.

When you hear corporate titans and the 1 percent rail that the Democrats’ efforts to revive the middle class in this country are “socialistic,” remember what the founding fathers said.

Too often we define ourselves by what we aspire to, rather than what we already have.

Remarkably, the arguments in favor of keeping East Hampton Airport in operation were generally without substance.