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• The Trump Shitstorm, My Book Talk March 7

  

  I will talk about my new book —The American Crisis: Chronicling and Confronting the Trump Shitstorm — on Tuesday, March 7, at noon, at the Albany Public Library... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Masculinity Crisis

  

  I’ve written about “lookism”* — discrimination against the less attractive. Graduating law school in 1970, I wasn’t ugly, but short, which didn’t help my career... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sam Harris on the Evil of Religion

  

  Sam Harris was one of the famous “four horsemen” of “new atheist” writers (along with Dawkins, Dennett, and Hitchens). He’s actually not materialist enough for... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine: The Long and the Short of It

  

  Long war or short war? That seems to be the question. Putin apparently had fantasized a very short war, Ukraine a pushover — believing it’s not really even a... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why You Can’t Trust Your Brain

  

  I heard a talk by Dr. Caleb Lack, a clinical psychologist and author. His topic: Why You Can’t Trust Your Brain.Well, whose brain can you trust? Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Christopher Hitchens’s Pen is Envy Inducing

  

  Christopher Hitchens died of cancer in 2011 at 62 — a stupendous loss. He was best known as one of “new atheism’s” “four horsemen” for his book God is Not... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Memphis — And Our Perennial Police Problem

  

  “Look, life is nasty, brutish, and short, but you knew that when you became a caveman.”“Nasty, brutish, and short” was Thomas Hobbes’s descriptor for life in a... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats and Non-white Voters

  

  I wanted to scream, hearing a recent radio panel discussion about voting rights legislation. The talk was all about “politicians” not caring enough to pass... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• UFO Abductions and America’s Reality Crisis

  

  People on America’s right are in thorough reality denial. Headlined of course by the 2020 “stolen election” lie. False beliefs about Covid and vaccines cost man... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China’s Covid Catastrophe

  

  When Covid began three years ago in Wuhan, China’s regime acted ruthlessly to contain it, with draconian lockdown, testing, and quarantining rules. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Political Double Standards, Whataboutism, and Classified Documents

  

  Promoting my “Trump Shitstorm” book has been an interesting experience. When I show it to someone, the cover usually provokes a strong reaction. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Judge LaSalle and the Left’s Performative Politics

  

  Governor Hochul has nominated Brooklyn Judge Hector LaSalle for New York’s Chief Justice, headlining this as the first Latino in that post.Such ethnicization... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden at the Border: Democrats and Immigration

  

  President Biden has now made a show of visiting the southern border. The one promise he made to me personally in 2020 was to end Trump’s cruel war on refugees... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Book Talk, “The Trump Shitstorm,” SAT. JAN. 14, 3 PM

  

  Hi,You’re invited to a talk and open discussion on my new book, THE AMERICAN CRISIS: Chronicling and Confronting the TRUMP SHITSTORM — 3 PM, next SATURDAY,... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The United States House of Reprehensibles

  

  I kept warning that voters giving Congressional power to these Republicans would be insane.Kevin McCarthy is a reprehensible character, totally self-serving... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Blacks Go Back to Africa

  

  “Go Back to Africa!” the marchers chanted, shaking their torches. “Go Back to Africa!” their signs declared.One small detail they overlooked. Black Americans’... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• An Artificial Intelligence Rebuts Me!

  

  I’ve been rebutted by an Artificial Intelligence bot.My nephew, Ben Broderick Phillips, works for Microsoft, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) within his... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trumpery Recap

  

  His tax returns have finally been made public, after a years-long legal battle. What was he hiding? The New York Times already reported in 2020 that he’d been... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Reunifications and Republicans

  

  Germany had long been divided, by a physical wall. It was opened, on November 9, 1989, and I’ll never forget seeing East Germans literally whooping with joy to... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action

  

  The way to stop racial discrimination, Chief Justice Roberts has said, “is to stop discriminating by race.”The Supreme Court will yet again revisit affirmative... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY