Archive - The First Person with Michael Judge

Lear’s Shadow

A poem for America

Jul 14

How E.B. White Saw It All—A City, Its Future

On E.B. White's birthday, TFP revisits the great American writer's prophetic essay, "Here Is New York."

Jul 11

Help Our Friends in Texas…

By donating whatever you can to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund.

Jul 9

A poem for America

Jul 8

Trout Fishing With My Son Outside Decorah, Iowa

A poem for summer

Jul 6

Happy Birthday, M. F. K. Fisher

July 3, 1908, Albion, MI | Died June 22, 1992, Glen Ellen, CA

Published on Best American Essays Newsletter • Jul 3

The Day I Met Clint Eastwood

In a meeting my son calls awesome, we talked about what he called his antiwar films, the violence inherent in humanity, and why society is at odds with…

Jul 1

June 2025

Excerpts From George Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’

On Orwell’s birthday, TFP revisits his 1946 essay and its timeless truths.

Jun 25

A poem for America

Jun 22

‘America is scary.’

I pray that’s a sentence my son never hears again.

Jun 17

A poem for Father’s Day

Jun 13

Taste Grief, Need Friends

Bad golf, good friends, and shared poetry

Jun 5

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