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The Rational Optimist
http://www.rationaloptimist.wordpress.com/
Commentary of Life, Society, Politics, and Philosophy
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1330 )
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Immigration, Crime, Politics, and Lies
On May 14, 1938, Lotte Dreyfuss, 17, a Jewish refugee traveling alone from Nazi Germany, stood on a ship’s deck in New York harbor greeted by the Statue of... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Thank You, President Biden
Nothing in his presidency became him like the leaving it.Faced with a great choice between what he wanted to do, and the right thing to do, he did the right... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Coming End of America
We face the end of America — the America I’ve so profoundly loved. I will be shattered.Through past episodes of mob madness, always in the broader population... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
War of the Gods in Mexico
The AP story began, “The Gods must be angry — or just laughing.”Mexican authorities have ordered removal of a 10-foot statue of Poseidon, Greek God of the Sea,... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Shooting’s Victim: America
America can’t seem to catch a break. Rather, event after event, without respite, piles on to doom us. The shooting just the latest coffin nail, driving the... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
To Quit, Or Not To Quit
, that is the question.Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous kvetching,Or to take arms against that sea of doubters,And b... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
World Election Roundup — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In 2016, British Prime Minister David Cameron thought to lance the Euroscepticism boil once and for all, with a referendum on continued European Union... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Biden’s Candidacy: Where Things Stand
President Biden rules out dropping out. Many Democratic Party poohbahs have been circling the wagons around him. As though there’s no option to change course.... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Charmaghz: Aiding Education in Afghanistan
Do you have difficulty deciding on charities to support?It’s actually, I’ve found, a tough challenge. So many worthy organizations around. Or are there? Read more
Posted on 05 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Supreme Court, Presidential Immunity, and the Implacable Tide
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,” said my last posting, about the presidential debate, quoting Shakespeare. The debate debacle one more episode in what... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Debate Debacle: Biden Should Withdraw
Watching the debate, I thought that if I were a blank slate, without background knowledge and understanding, I’d vote for Trump. Tragically, that does largely... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Election and the Media
Responsible mainstream media are a last line of defense against a firestorm of craziness engulfing us. But not much of a defense, it seems. Read more
Posted on 25 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
“The Plot Against America”
That’s the title of a Philip Roth novel, an “alternative history” imagining us going fascist in the 1940s. It’s perhaps a more serious book than The Breast,... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Earthrise
William Anders died June 7, at 90, when a plane he was piloting crashed. He was the astronaut responsible for probably the most famous photograph of all time:... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Deglobalization
(This, slightly edited, was a commentary recently published in the Albany Times-Union)Artificial intelligence. Climate change. Gaza and Ukraine wars. All Big... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Believers — Defended by a Nonbeliever
A friend urged me to read anthropologist Melvin Konner’s 2019 book, Believers. Its subtitle, Faith in Human Nature, has two meanings, readable together as the... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The War on Rule of Law
This is a very big deal. Republicans say Trump’s felony conviction is a blot on our justice system, a partisan persecution. Suppose for a moment they’re right.... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
CrazyLand
“As regards Trump, it’s quite obvious that the effective removal of political opponents by all lawful and unlawful means is going on, and the whole world can se... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
La Commedia è Finita — ??
For nine effing years this one man has fixated national attention like no other in our history. Just what his deranged ego craves.When in 2015, Mr. Read more
Posted on 31 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Albany’s Greek Festival Gone Wild
Our town’s long had an annual Greek Festival. The kind of multiculturalism I love about this country — not separationist but inclusivist, Greek-Americans... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2024 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY