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• The Pelosi Attack

  

  Okay, one swallow does not a summer make, nor one nutjob’s violence a holocaust. But it’s one more signpost on our downward road.David DePape was a Trumpian... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Right Track, Wrong Track: I Lied

  

  I lied, to a pollster. Asked the iconic “right track/wrong track” question, I said America is on the right track. Because my truthful answer would redound... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine: Russia’s Dirty Bomb Warning

  

  Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has warned that Ukraine will use a “dirty bomb.” That’s a conventional explosive that spews radioactive contamination. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chinese Exceptionalism: the Mandate of Heaven, and Political Legitimacy

  

  Xi Jinping has started a third term as China’s ruler.Not “elected.” While democracy has achieved such moral cachet that even the worst dictators (like Putin)... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Max Boot on Trump Derangement Syndrome

  

  “Trump derangement syndrome” is invoked by his fans gleeful at his driving opponents nuts. Of course, those opponents are entirely rational; it’s Trumpers... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Seeing “Hamilton” in London

  

  Calling London an international city is inadequate. It’s like a city with no nationality at all; no native tongue, everyone speaking their own.“Does anyone spea... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bad Parents and Politics

  

  Bad parent memoirs are a big literary genre. Recently I read a very different kind of book, about guided psychedelic experiences. Many who undergo them have... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

  

  What does it really mean to be morally good? Michael Schur actually created a TV show exploring this question — a comedy in fact! His personal quest for... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crime and Policing

  

  Crime is rising! People always think this. But in fact crime rates hit a peak in the early ’90s (though nowhere near earlier epochs), and then fell inexorably... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ukraine: How Does This End?

  

  The wanton, callous destruction, death, and suffering sear the soul.Having denied that Russia’s Ukraine aggression is a “war,” Putin now denies that it’s going... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “If the Guy Had Done Anything Wrong, It Would Have Come out by Now”

  

  He now says he declassified the documents in his mind, just by thinking it, no sort of “process” being necessary. Also that the FBI, in its judicially authorize... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Worst Candidate I’ll Have Ever Voted For

  

  Last winter, New York State’s government bought 52 million Covid test kits for $637 million, or $12.25 each. Right after, California (with a bigger population)... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor . . .

  

  So Governor Abbott grabs human beings — mothers and children, who have already suffered horrific ordeals fleeing nightmares in places like Venezuela — and puts... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Birthday Gift – A Marriage Culture

  

  For my recent 75th birthday — in a addition to a cake, a new cushion for my outdoor recliner, a mermaid sculpture, a piece of furniture, and a mess of... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real Story About Inflation

  

  Inflation is a bad thing. The whole point of money is as a receptacle of value; fluctuating value defeats the purpose. The $10 you put in the bank a year ago ha... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Frontline — How MAGA Maggots Ate the GOP

  

  PBS’s recent Frontline documentary, Lies, Politics and Democracy, I thought would just be old hat. Instead it was a compelling and revealing eye-opener.For six... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Faulkner on Race

  

  I’ve written about William Faulkner (1897-1962) as my favorite novelist. A Mississippian, his books were all set there, between Civil War times and the early... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Metaphysical Club: Religion and Democracy

  

  When single, I jumped on a personal ad saying “interested in ideas.” But on our date, the gal seemed no intellectual. I asked what she’d meant by “interested... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Goodbye Gorby

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev was the most consequential personage of the 20th century’s latter half. And in a good way.Now that is really saying something. The 21st... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Riots in the Streets”

  

  Senator Lindsay Graham, the on-again-off-again toady, foresees “riots in the streets” if Trump is prosecuted for stealing classified documents. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2022 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY