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• The Debt Ceiling: This Time Looks Different

  

  We’ve been there, done that: Republicans try to hold hostage the Congressional vote to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, with maybe too a government shut-down, to... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Color of Law: Racial Segregation

  

  Richard Rothstein’s 2017 book, The Color of Law, concerns U.S. residential segregation. He says we have a myth that it’s de facto segregation, meaning mainly a... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rebraining: Introducing Virtual Reality’s Quantum Leap Forward

  

  First there was Pac-man.Anyone remember Pac-man? A computer game where you guided a little nothing to swallow other little nothings. Big whoop. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Afghanistan, Biden, and Trump: Is Biden Just as Bad?

  

  The Biden administration has released a report blaming the 2021 Afghanistan disaster on its predecessor.Well, sure. Trump, the great deal maker, had negotiated... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Arrogance of Power: India and Tennessee

  

  Long called “the world’s largest democracy,” India is becoming a DINO — democracy in name only. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party,... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China and the New Cold War: Detente?

  

  What makes nations enemies?The Soviet Union aimed for Communism’s ultimate global triumph. The free world, led by the U.S., strove for containment. That was... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Government Witch Hunt — Masood Haque’s Film “Witness”

  

  Loud protestations allege government prosecutorial abuse, and FBI misconduct, improperly targeting a former president, a political hit job; a “witch hunt. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Right: Freedom-Loving Pro-Life Law-and-Order Patriots??

  

  People can be perfectly rational in everyday life, even while holding some goofy ideas. Such occasional lapses are natural and normal. But what if they become... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Trust Science?

  

  — a book by Naomi Oreskes — was reviewed at the Albany Library by Sherrie Lyons, herself a science author.Ours is the age of science. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Value of a Whale” — Capitalism and Climate

  

  Adrienne Buller is a thirtyish British think-tanker. Her 2022 book, The Value of a Whale, is subtitled On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Justice — Maybe Just a Little?

  

  The Judges of the International Criminal Court in the Hague have issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. For a crime against humanity (only one of his... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religion Wrecking Israel

  

  We’re often told religion provides “comfort.” It’s understandably comforting to imagine death isn’t death. Though a more authentically meaningful life can be... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• About Fox News: Just Facts, No Rhetoric

  

  As a writer, I love language, the challenge of putting ideas into words. To find just the right words to convey something.Hyperbole is extreme language. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Identity Politics Hurts Democrats

  

  I heard a radio report about Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Cal.) declaring her candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Asked why she’s running, virtually the first word in reply... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Freedom of Speech — Can of Worms

  

  Elon Musk said he was taking over Twitter in the name of free speech. Twitter was faulted for trying to keep a lid on harmful craziness. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Philosophy of Train Derailments: Stuff Happens

  

  Firstly regarding the train derailment, it’s a sickening cheap shot for Republicans to fault President Biden for being in Europe, not Ohio. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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