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• Police Reform: a Conservative Issue

  

  A recent local TV discussion included some Black activists and Albany’s police chief and other officials. The big takeaway was insufficient police accountabilit... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Sanity Crisis

  

  Though just 51% voted for Biden, I’d hoped his election might dispel the fog of insanity gripping most of the rest. But so far if anything it’s... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Where the Crawdads Sing (Big Spoiler Alert)

  

  My local paper publishes the NY Times bestseller list weekly, which I glance at. Where the Crawdads Sing, a novel by Delia Owens, topped it forever. Owens is a... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Understanding Trump Voters #386: the Personal is Political

  

  Like half the country, I’ve spent four years struggling to understand how the other half could vote for Trump. It seems insane.A piece on medium.com by Jeff... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Supreme Court’s Religious Crusade

  

  Robyn Blumner is a lawyer, CEO of the Center for Inquiry, and head of the Richard Dawkins Foundation. I recently heard her speak about the assault on... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Russell Baker: “There’s a Country in My Cellar”

  

  Russell Baker (1925-2019) was a New York Times reporter and then columnist. His book about growing up — titled, oddly enough, Growing Up— was a wonderful read.... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The GOP: The Grievance Obsessed Party

  

  I left the Republican party when it stopped being a party of principles and ideals. Becoming instead a party of grievance.The grievances have been economic,... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Memo Re: Inaugural Speech

  

  To: Greg Schultz, senior strategist, Biden campaignFrom: Frank S. RobinsonRe: Inaugural addressNov. 9, 2020Hi Greg,Don’t know if you’ll have any input on the... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thanksgiving During a Plague

  

  Perhaps typically, the Thanksgiving holiday’s meaning has gotten somewhat lost. It’s mainly now just an occasion for family gathering and feasting. Actually a... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Nordic Theory of Everything: Lessons for America

  

  America is a great country. Not perfect, but striving to improve — its best characteristic.Anu Partanen was a young Finnish reporter, who moved here and was... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Covid-19, Trump, Election Integrity, Masks, Schools, and Everything

  

  Covid is surging in virtually every state, worse than ever, a million U.S. infections a week, a quarter million dead and rising fast, hospitals overwhelmed — an... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Mother’s 100th Birthday

  

  My mother, Lotte Robinson, turned 100 on November 16, and I went to California for the party.Lotte Dreyfuss was born in Nurnberg, Germany. Her father had taken ... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Normal People

  

  Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People is about people. No subject fascinates us more. It’s why storytelling arose. Helping us understand the people we live among. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Million Moron March, and Political Tribalism

  

  There were fears of a violent insurrectionary “March on Washington” by gun nuts to keep Trump in office. Violence may yet occur. But what we’ll mainly see at... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Transition Travesty: the Expanding Republican Alternate Universe

  

  After years of falsely saying Democrats “refused to accept” the 2016 election — actually, it was Trump refusing to accept losing the popular vote — we always... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A New America

  

  Some commentators are opining that, in retrospect, Biden was the only candidate who could have beaten Trump. Biden outpaced most other Democrats on the ballot,... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Love for Trump Supporters

  

  We all have multiple allegiances. My central allegiance is to my species. Our great human project, since our dawn, has been to facilitate good rewarding lives,... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bye Bye Trump — Good Riddance

  

  Last night at the White House podium he gave the vilest presidential speech in history. Eclipsing the mark set the previous morning. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Unhinged Last-ditch Attack on Democracy

  

  Trump’s always been one big living lie (shown by his psychologist niece’s book). That’s gone into overdrive. Maybe his diseased mind actually fantasizes he can... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Deliverance — for Now — Barely

  

  My 2008 Rational Optimism book saw a powerful trend of human progress. With America in its vanguard. But progress never runs in a straight line, and democracy i... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY