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• Cancel Culture and “The Human Stain”

  

  Coleman Silk was a dynamo college dean who put his school on the map. Now he’s teaching a classics seminar; two students enrolled therein have never attended.... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Write a Blog

  

  I think about things. About what’s happening in the world, my life, things I read, etc. Being exposed to much thought-provoking content, it literally provokes... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The British Royals: Netflix’s “The Crown”

  

  “The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them.”Jefferson wrote that in his last... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Republican War on Voting Rights

  

  Republicans are a minority party. Winning the presidential popular vote only once (and then barely) since 1988. Their weakness masked by the electoral college... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Statue”— My Short Story Video

  

  My tale, “The Statue,” was a winner in the Hudson Valley Writers Guild’s recent short story contest. Originally written around fifty years ago, it might have... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Status Cuomo

  

  Saying “Sorry if someone was offended” is not an apology. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s first accuser, Lindsey Boylan, might have been shrugged off. I’d... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Insane Republican Religious Cult

  

  I’d love to forget Trump ever existed. But Republicans won’t; despite January 6, Trumpier than ever. Kind of circling the wagons around him.Seventeen GOP... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Understanding History’s Meaning

  

  (My Black History Month essay)America is a divided country — two sides seeing things very differently. Naturally enough that includes history. Interpreting the... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Get Your Shot — Please

  

  Millions around the country struggle with non-user-friendly systems, desperately trying to schedule their covid vaccinations. While millions of others refuse th... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• End the Filibuster

  

  I previously wrote that Democrats, in power, should refrain from exercising it in ways that might look illegitimate — that is, like Republicans have. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Zoom Short Story Reading Saturday 1 PM

  Hi,At 1 PM tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 20, on zoom, The Hudson Valley Writers Guild will have public readings of three prize winning short stories from its recent... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Plague

  

  It starts with rats, coming out, bloodily dying, all over. Of course it’s the plague. Literally; the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death that devastated Europe in... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Biden’s “Buy American” Mistake

  

  Trumpers persist in caricaturing President Biden as some kind of mentally defective fool. One Facebook graphic even denying that such a man could have gotten... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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