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Pamela Paul

Pamela Paul’s last New York Times column

John Fea   |  April 3, 2025

I’ve enjoyed her work these past couple of years. I hate to see her go. A taste: This is my final column for The Times. In the memo I wrote three years ago when applying for this job after 11 […]

Pamela Paul: By making abortion rights a centerpiece of her campaign, Harris had a “reductive view of women’s lives as citizens.” 

John Fea   |  November 7, 2024

New York Times columnist Pamela Paul joins the chorus of voices trying to explain what happened on Tuesday. Here is a taste: But do not blame women for Kamala Harris’s loss. Blame Kamala Harris and her campaign strategists. Apart from […]

Do some progressives owe apologies?

John Fea   |  May 19, 2024

Here is Bill Maher, Pamela Paul (New York Times) and Nellie Bowles (The Free Press):

Frank Bruni offers his “best sentences of 2023”

John Fea   |  January 2, 2024

Here is Bruni at The New York Times: Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times […]

“I began to feel like there’s a lot that not’s being said and a lot that’s not being written”

John Fea   |  November 27, 2023

The one thing that I did start doing that year (2020) was talk on the phone. I’ve never been a phone talker, but, of course, that’s all you had for a while. And I would have long conversations on the […]

Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.”

John Fea   |  October 6, 2023

Pamela Paul, the former editor of The New York Times Book Review, is the latest to use the Ibram X. Kendi controversy at Boston University to critique Kendi’s philosophy of “antiracism.” Here is Paul: “…many major universities, corporations, nonprofit groups […]