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• “Educated” by Tara Westover — Wow!

  

  There’s a huge genre of “Parents from Hell” memoirs. Tara Westover’s is intensely gripping.She was born in 1986 into an extremist Mormon family, standing in... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bitcoin: a Solution in Search of a Problem

  

  Since coins are my business, perhaps I should discuss Bitcoin.It’s a “cryptocurrency” or digital currency. Or supposed to be. Existing only in cyberspace but... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeach Or Not Impeach: That is the Question

  

  No president — probably no public official — has ever merited impeachment more than Trump. That’s even before Mueller’s report.If our civic system were working... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What the Election Means

  

  JonesCNN commentator Van Jones said you’d think America’s “antibodies would kick in,” against the disgusting onslaught of lies, hate, bigotry, divisiveness and... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What American Nationalism Should Be

  

  Trump now, defiantly, calls himself a “nationalist.” For lefties it’s a dirty word. Some dream of “one world” uniting all humanity. John Lennon sang “imagine... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Caravan and the Craven

  

  Democrats make health care the main issue of this election. For Trump it’s the “caravan.” Labeling it an “invasion” of criminals, “bad people,” Islamic... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Make America America Again

  

  When I wrote recently about the coming elections, I didn’t mention “health care.” Which Democrats pitch as their main issue. (Republicans respond by lying... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Love, Sex, and the Internet

  

  The Economist recently ran a great report on how the internet has changed dating and mating. Mostly for the better.It has brought much efficiency and rationalit... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Midterms: Exterminate Republicans

  

  I was a devoted conservative Republican for 53 years. Today’s Republican party must be exterminated (electorally). It’s in thrall to a cruel monster of... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Coming Immortality

  

  Woody Allen said, “I don’t want to live on in my films. I want to live on in my apartment.”Humanity has always battled nature’s limitations — including bodily... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Jamal Khashoggi, and Murderers We Love

  

  The rule used to be that you could murder all the people you liked within your own borders, but doing it elsewhere was a no-no.Or was it? Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Now It Really Begins: the End of Our Democracy

  

  The National Park Service is proposing to charge protesters for demonstrating in the nation’s capital.You read that right: a fee, levied by the government,... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is the Basis for Morality?

  

  This question has vexed philosophers through the ages. My humanist book group is reading Kenan Malik’s The Quest for a Moral Compass — a Global History of... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Secular Rescue – Saving Lives, Freedom, and Open Debate

  

  Religion can inspire good deeds. Or killing people with machetes.This is happening today, notably in Bangladesh, where organized vigilantes target and murder... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religion, Politics, and Abortion

  

  A piece by “writer and consultant” Jacob Lupfer on my local paper’s “Faith Values” page talked mainly about political independents. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Anti-Trump Albany Book Festival

  

  This event, put on by the wonderful New York State Writers Institute, was not really political. But nobody would read this if I just titled it “Albany Book... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• An Hysterical Republican Message

  

  Because I once contributed, I still get Republican fundraising emails. It’s a revealing — and scary — window into their world. (Click here for one parroting... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Non-ugly American in Somaliland: Jonathan Starr’s Abaarso School

  

  Bad news abounds. Even efforts to improve the world often do the opposite — that’s the history of foreign aid and development initiatives. “Ugly American”... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kavanaugh: America Grabbed by the Pussy

  

  He said/she said. She testified about sexual transgressions by the Supreme Court nominee. He rejoined with an emphatic, highly emotional denial. I was inclined... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Cruel War on Refugees and Immigrants Intensifies

  

  When, for this post, I googled “U.S. refugee admissions,” the very first thing that came up was this quote on the State Department’s website:“The United States... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY