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• Power and Progress

  

  In the 2023 book, Power and Progress, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, the idea of progress improving productivity, and making everyone better off, is calle... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• $230 Million: The Biggest Most Blatantly Corrupt Political Thievery in U.S....

  

  Hard to believe even Trump could be so despicable.He’s used junk lawsuits to shake down big media companies for millions in “settlements” that amount to... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mitch Landrieu: What Democrats Need To Do

  

  Mitch Landrieu says Democrats have a problem. Up against the awfullest regime in U.S. history, they actually seem the less popular. Losing connection to the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court’s 2025 Dred Scott Decision

  

  In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the infamous Dred Scott decision, ruled (actual quote) that Black people “had no rights which the white man was bound to... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coming Debt Bomb

  

  Some say governments should manage budgets like families must. But governments are different. They can borrow and keep rolling over loans indefinitely — as... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Frozen River — Too Good to Be True

  

  The Frozen River is a 2023 novel by Ariel Lawhon. Wow, a helluva read, very gripping; the action doesn’t let up. So vividly written, it’s almost believable. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pronoun Problems and the State of the Nation

  

  The New York State Writers Institute’s annual book festival is always a great event. One program this year had Robert Boyers in talk with John McWhorter. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “No Kings” — Loving America

  

  Albany’s October 18 “No Kings” protest stretched along Western Avenue from Manning to Stuyvesant Plaza, a couple miles. I walked it from one end to the other,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The French and British Nightmares

  

  America is not alone in going haywire. What is it with the French? Such a great cultural history — but when it comes to politics — Mon Dieu!They’re now on... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Good Is Free Speech?

  

  (A shortened version of my 9/30 Albany Library book talk)This 2022 book, Free Speech, by Jacob Mchangama, incisively chronicles freedom of speech and the press... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Should Trump Get a Nobel Peace Prize?

  

  Trump may have finally managed, after flailing around erratically, to stop the Gaza war. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Samantha Power: Idealist

  

  Samantha Power was our UN Ambassador. Her 2019 memoir is titled The Education of an Idealist. A bold title — no disillusionment hinted. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Still Life: Stories by David Sylvester

  

  At the New York State Writers Institute’s annual book festival, there’s a hall full of authors at tables flogging their work. It felt like entering a den of... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump and Hegseth — Fighting the Last War — And Us

  

  Hundreds of America’s military top brass, summoned at a cost of millions last Tuesday, reportedly “sat stone faced” while harangued by Trump and Hegseth about... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump: Mister Human Rights

  

  Talking to Xi Jinping, Trump did not criticize China’s horrific human rights abuses against Xinjiang Uighurs, around a million put in concentration camps. In... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 8647

  

  Trump’s last campaign darkly threatened “retribution.” Now we’re starting to see the horror.Former FBI Director James Comey is a particular Trump target. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Regime Welcomes Refugees!!

  

  Think the Trump regime hates refugees? Guess again!In Mid-May a group of refugees was fulsomely welcomed here, indeed given VIP treatment. Flown in on a... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Evolution: Climbing Mount Improbable

  

  A good rule of thumb in my reading is that I can’t go wrong with a Richard Dawkins book. So I picked up this 1996 one, Climbing Mount Improbable.The title is a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New DEI — Discrimination, Exclusion and Inequity

  

  “DEI” has stood for diversity, equity and inclusion. Then the Trump regime declared war on all that. So now DEI is transmogrified into discrimination,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Book Talk Tues., May 13: Why Nations Fail

  

  I will discuss “Why Nations Fail,” by Acemoglu & Robinson, Tuesday May 13, 2 PM, at Albany Library, 161 Washington Ave. This has much relevance to today’s... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY