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• Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

  

  Which among the three would you choose?I read Howard Gardner’s 2011 book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-first... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Idlib: the Coming Holocaust

  

  Idlib is the last part of Syria still holding out against the Assad regime. Which, together with its Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah allies, is readying a... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Readers’ Poll

  

  1. Trump recently tweeted that the Department of Justice should not have indicted two “very popular” Republican congressmen for crimes before the mid-term... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Richard Wolff in Sheep’s Clothing, on Capitalism Versus Socialism

  

  I heard Richard Wolff again on “Alternative [left-wing] Radio.” He’s the “Marxist” economics professor whose LOL take on first class airplane seats I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Vote for the Homo, Not for Cuomo

  

  In the 1977 New York mayoral primary, Mario Cuomo was running against Ed Koch — unmarried and rumored to be gay. Shortly before the vote, posters appeared... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New York Times “Anonymous” Op-ed

  

  I defer to another guest column, by Francis Wilkinson in Bloomberg Opinion. Every word is on target. Edited by me for brevity:Some people in the White House... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dishonest Kavanaugh Charade

  

  Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” Well, settled law is what the Supreme Court says. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Trump Tax on Cars

  

  NAFTA was a bad deal, the worst deal ever, sending jobs to Mexico. Our imports exceed exports, a bad thing. Trump’s tough talk of tariffs against Mexico made... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My New York Primary Endorsements

  

  I enrolled last year as a Democrat, to vote in primaries to keep the party from veering too far left. That is complicated in New York because of the Cuomo... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump is the Antichrist

  

  Fundamentalist Christians have long been obsessed with the Antichrist. He figured prominently in the “Left Behind” books. Not an abstraction, the Antichrist... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Robert Ingersoll — the Greatest Man You Never Heard of

  

  We went to a Syracuse shindig celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Robert Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. Run by the Center for Inquiry, a secular humanist... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• John McCain

  

  The two presidential candidates I was most proud to support were both Arizonans. I believe that had John McCain won in 2008, America today would be in far bette... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Manafort, Cohen, and the Prevaricator of the United States

  

  ManafortPaul Manafort was Trump’s campaign chief. Bad enough that he worked for foreign villains like Yanukovych, whom even Ukraine couldn’t stomach (which is... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Eviction Problem

  

  A trivial incident — kids throwing snowballs at a car. Next thing you know, Arleen, a single Milwaukee mother, is evicted. Sheriff guys give her a choice: all... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Polygamy Problem

  

  “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Or several, in many places in the world. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Was America Founded as a “Christian Nation?”

  

  We’re often told that it was. The aim is to cast secularism as somehow un-American, and override the Constitution’s separation of church and state. But it’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bye Bye Britain

  

  A parent’s decline and demise is a sad thing. Britain was our mother country.The Brits turned a bad corner in voting for Brexit — that is, to leave the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fact of the Day

  

  According to a June 28 article in The Economist, the number of people employed in China censoring internet content is estimated to exceed two million. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Reveal” International Contemporary Art Fair in Saratoga Springs

  

  We had lucked out during vacation trips to Dubai and San Francisco, happening upon unanticipated international art shows in both places. So when I saw there’d b... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• QAnon and the Republican War on Reality

  

  “QAnon” is the handle of an online person or group claiming access to all kinds of secret information (“Q” refers to a high security clearance) about “deep... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY