Tom Purcell

It’s called “messy authenticity,” and it’s the latest trend to clearly demonstrate America has lost its collective mind. Looking for a Maison Margiela sweater with unfinished threads and gaping holes?...

Ring. Ring. “Hello, this is Tom.” “We know who you are, Tom.” “Who is this? How’d you get my smartphone number?” “Your personal details are everywhere, Tom — public records,...

In our hopelessly polarized world, surely we can agree on this: Bill Belichick needs an intervention. If you haven’t yet heard, Bill, 73, is engaged to 24-year-old former cheerleader, beauty...

Too many modern universities — for centuries hallowed halls that encouraged passionate debate — have lost their way. The first universities, Plato’s Academy (387 B.C.) and Aristotle’s Lyceum (335 B.C.),...

Flooring the accelerator of Donny Krieger’s ’69 SS Chevelle was one of the great thrills of my life. I was only 15 when I slammed the Chevelle’s four-speed Hurst shifter...

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was roundly criticized for predicting the violent, hopeless future millions of children from broken families now face. Moynihan — a sociologist, diplomat and four-term Democratic...

I attended a meeting with the Deputy Director of Gobbledygook — and his interpreter — to learn why government rules, regulations and guidance documents are so hard to read and...

My friend and his wife, longtime residents of Washington, D.C., helped me understand one of the root causes of crime in the nation’s capital — truancy. “It starts there,” said...