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• 100 Days — 1361 To Go

  

  The Albany Times-Union solicited reader thoughts on Trump’s 100-day mark. Here’s my submission:In halcyon 2009, I wrote The Case for Rational Optimism.... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The ICEman Cometh: Trump’s Criminal Gestapo

  

  Nothing was more central to the American idea than rule of law and freedom of speech.Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent U.S. resident in Vermont, was at an... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• AI: The Consciousness Problem

  

  At a 2016 presentation, computer guru David Gelernter insisted no artificial system could ever be conscious, lacking neurons. I challenged him, arguing that if... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America: The Enemy of the World

  

  America was once the envy of the world. Now the enemy of the world.Trump’s tariffs attack every country (except Russia!) as an enemy. All concretely harmed,... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• AI and Religion: The God in the Machine

  

  Artificial Intelligence is changing the world in huge ways we’re only beginning to see. My poet wife, much into AI, recently used it to help choreograph a... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The American Crisis: Can Democrats Save Us?

  

  My wife and I were invited to a day-long (8 AM to 9 PM) April 8 New York City conference run by James Carville’s “Democracy Matters” organization. Including... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Political is Personal: How I’m Feeling Now

  

  Shortly after Trump’s first term began, a group of friends were like, “We didn’t realize how bad it would be.”“I did,” said I.But I was wrong. It got even worse... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The “Manufacturing” Meshugas and Trump’s Tariff Tragedy

  

  Hearing the word “manufacturing” can make me grind my teeth. It’s a key rationale for Trump’s tariffs: to “reshore” manufacturing, bringing back those good... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Strength and Leadership

  

  “Strength” was a key psychological factor in the 2024 election. Osama Bin Laden famously said, “if people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ugly American

  

  Not issues or policies. What tortures me most is the sheer ugliness, the disgusting classless crassness, the dishonesty. Degrading my once-beloved... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pig Butchering: The Giant International Scam Industry

  

  I get tons of spam and scam emails daily. Couple years ago, one piqued my curiosity. From some “Zodiac” outfit offering me $750,000 to re-donate. (I do have a... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Meaning of Dreams

  

  “Dream” is a powerful word. As in I Have a Dream, or The American Dream. Such tropes are powerful because they invoke something we all experience, for hours... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pericles at Gettysburg

  

  My sister-in-law gifted me a book about war writings by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. A flattering gift perhaps. Better still having a wife who’d... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump War on DEI Promotes Not Merit But Racism

  

  In 1972, as a young Public Service Commission lawyer, cross-examining a utility company executive in a rate hearing, I asked how many employees they had.He... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• David Hume on Religion

  

  David Hume (1711-76) was a seminal Scottish philosopher. I recently read a book of essays about his writings. (The Cambridge Companion to Hume.)He was not of... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crazed U.S. Goes to War — Against Our Best Friends

  

  Canada and Mexico. Our next-door besties. But Trump literally doesn’t know the meaning of the word “friend.” Others exist only to manipulate and exploit. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What the Trump-Vance-Zelensky Meeting Means

  

  Friday’s televised White House meeting with Trump and Vance berating and humiliating Ukrainian President Zelensky set a new standard for vileness. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Important New Facts You Should Know

  

  The “Steele Dossier” became notorious in connection with the 2016-17 Trump/Russia investigation. Produced by British counter-intelligence operative Christopher... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• James and the Giant N-Word

  

  The n-word has a status wholly unique in our language. There are many offensive words whose shock value has been worn to almost nothing. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The End of America

  

  For years I’ve written that America as a humane, enlightened democracy could not endure without a citizenry understanding and internalizing its foundational... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY