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• Greenland — America Pays a Big Price — And Gets Nothing

  

  An Albany Times-Union editorial called Trump’s Greenland threats “insane” and “madness;” and said the European Union must impose harsh economic sanctions agains... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Israel’s Kristallnacht — And Minnesota’s

  

  “Kristallnacht” was the 1938 German Nazi pogrom attacking Jews with violent atrocities. (My own forebears got out months earlier. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Disgusting, Vile, Sick

  

  Venezuela’s democracy heroine Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump (well, the medal — not the money). Part of the global orgy of Trump butt-kissing. I... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Book Spurning

  

  Socrates denounced writing as undermining people’s faculty for memory. Nevertheless, writing and reading spread greatly in the ensuing 2400 years. Now that’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 1984

  

  Yes, the book, Orwell’s 1949 novel. I read it, like, 60 years ago. But one of my book groups recently picked it — for obvious reasons. So I read it again.... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Venezuela’s Oil — And The New World Order

  

  “No blood for oil!” was the cry opposing our 2003 Iraq action. The cynical notion that it was to grab Iraq’s oil was false. We went in for high-minded reasons.... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Blog Suspension

  

  Visitors here in recent days have gotten a screen saying this blog is suspended for violating terms of service.I learned of it yesterday when I tried to post a... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2026 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Power and Progress

  

  In the 2023 book, Power and Progress, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, the idea of progress improving productivity, and making everyone better off, is calle... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• $230 Million: The Biggest Most Blatantly Corrupt Political Thievery in U.S....

  

  Hard to believe even Trump could be so despicable.He’s used junk lawsuits to shake down big media companies for millions in “settlements” that amount to... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mitch Landrieu: What Democrats Need To Do

  

  Mitch Landrieu says Democrats have a problem. Up against the awfullest regime in U.S. history, they actually seem the less popular. Losing connection to the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court’s 2025 Dred Scott Decision

  

  In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the infamous Dred Scott decision, ruled (actual quote) that Black people “had no rights which the white man was bound to... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Coming Debt Bomb

  

  Some say governments should manage budgets like families must. But governments are different. They can borrow and keep rolling over loans indefinitely — as... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Frozen River — Too Good to Be True

  

  The Frozen River is a 2023 novel by Ariel Lawhon. Wow, a helluva read, very gripping; the action doesn’t let up. So vividly written, it’s almost believable. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pronoun Problems and the State of the Nation

  

  The New York State Writers Institute’s annual book festival is always a great event. One program this year had Robert Boyers in talk with John McWhorter. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “No Kings” — Loving America

  

  Albany’s October 18 “No Kings” protest stretched along Western Avenue from Manning to Stuyvesant Plaza, a couple miles. I walked it from one end to the other,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The French and British Nightmares

  

  America is not alone in going haywire. What is it with the French? Such a great cultural history — but when it comes to politics — Mon Dieu!They’re now on... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Good Is Free Speech?

  

  (A shortened version of my 9/30 Albany Library book talk)This 2022 book, Free Speech, by Jacob Mchangama, incisively chronicles freedom of speech and the press... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Should Trump Get a Nobel Peace Prize?

  

  Trump may have finally managed, after flailing around erratically, to stop the Gaza war. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Samantha Power: Idealist

  

  Samantha Power was our UN Ambassador. Her 2019 memoir is titled The Education of an Idealist. A bold title — no disillusionment hinted. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Still Life: Stories by David Sylvester

  

  At the New York State Writers Institute’s annual book festival, there’s a hall full of authors at tables flogging their work. It felt like entering a den of... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY