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• The Trial

  

  In Kafka’s novel The Trial, Josef K is charged with a crime no one ever specifies. It ends with his execution.Trump’s trial is the inverse. His crime obvious. I... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Lessons from Myanmar’s Coup

  

  Francis Fukuyama’s 1992 book, The End of History, heralded liberal democracy’s apparent final triumph, fulfilling basic human aspirations. But alas, bad people... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is Philosophy About?

  

  What is the true nature of reality? The meaning of life? How should one live? I read a collection of essays (The Power of Ideas) by philosopher Isaiah Berlin... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden Restoring America’s Moral Sanity

  

  Tuesday I saw a news clip of President Biden, masked, at his desk, announcing a task force “to undo the moral and national shame of the previous administration... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Understanding the China Problem

  

  Henry Kissinger wrote a 624-page book, On China. Here’s a shorter take.China’s imperial dynasty was overthrown in 1911. Violent turmoil followed as warlords,... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeachment: to Vote Or Not to Vote

  

  Republicans call the impeachment unconstitutional because Trump’s already out of office. They’re wrong. He was impeached while still president; and the... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Democracy and the Big Lie

  

  In November 1918, Germany’s military situation had become hopeless. Support for the Kaiser collapsed, he fled, and a new democratic government came in and signe... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wear a Mask — Please

  

  It’s not something being forced on you. It’s being asked of you. For your own health and safety, and everyone around you. Nobody has “freedom” to do as they... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Great New Idea: the Patriot Party

  

  QAnoners called it “The Storm.” The long-awaited gotterdammerung when heroic Trump would at last spring his trap and destroy the insidious Satanic deep-state... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Alexei Navalny: Courageous Hero

  

  In a world full of cynicism and falsehood, Alexei Navalny stands out as a true hero for the ages.Long Vladimir Putin’s chief nemesis, with space for political... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• January 20: America’s Light Rekindled

  

  The only presidential inauguration I ever got an engraved invitation to was Nixon’s in 1969. I didn’t go. Covid sidelining Biden’s was a big disappointment. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Cult of the Leader: Khomeini, Hitler, Big Brother, Trump

  

  The news photo was unnerving. Trump’s January 6 rally — with three big screens looming over the crowd, imaging the center of his face, colored deep red, eyes... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Free Speech and America’s Escalating Crisis of Trumpist Insanity

  

  Trump’s 2016 election put America, and what it represents, into a crisis that has only escalated. Every time we think we’ve seen the bottom, we’re proven wrong. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Caste: America’s Deep Problem

  

  Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns, about Blacks leaving the Jim Crow South, was inspiring. Her new book Caste is dispiriting. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Deadliest Sin: Arrogance

  

  One of the traditional “seven deadly sins” is pride. But that’s actually not the right word.Most of those “sins” have unambiguous meanings — sloth, gluttony,... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• January 6, 2021 — A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

  

  Today, January 6, 2021 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States was attacked — by an insurrectionary mob storming the capitol — and by over 100... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Crime and Punishment in America

  

  Cheryl Roberts is an ex-Judge, currently serving as Executive Director of the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice, as well as corporation... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Rick Burns, Democracy in Action, and My Coming of Age

  

  I saw a January 1 obituary for a Richard “Rick” Burns, and it pricked a distant memory. I wasn’t even sure I had the name correct. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gofundme for Somaliland Rape and Torture Victim

  

  Cawo, a Somaliland medical student, while living with a host family in order to pursue her university studies, was stalked by a relative of that family, who... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Farewell 2020

  

  (We had a zoomed family holiday poetry slam. Here’s my poem.)2020 Farewell,A year from Hell;A year of years,Of fears and tears. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY