Gene Weingarten is an astonishingly good writer. He has a weekly column in the Washington Post that's 'ha-ha, Dave Berry-level-funny' but then once a year or so

Gene Weingarten is an astonishingly good writer. He has a weekly column in the Washington Post that's 'ha-ha, Dave Berry-level-funny' but then once a year or so he'll write a long piece that absolutely destroys you. Both "Peekaboo Paradox" and "Fatal Distraction" are heavy stuff. "Fatal Distraction," in particular, will be something you carry with you the rest of your life.