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• Trump and Hegseth — Fighting the Last War — And Us

  

  Hundreds of America’s military top brass, summoned at a cost of millions last Tuesday, reportedly “sat stone faced” while harangued by Trump and Hegseth about... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump: Mister Human Rights

  

  Talking to Xi Jinping, Trump did not criticize China’s horrific human rights abuses against Xinjiang Uighurs, around a million put in concentration camps. In... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 8647

  

  Trump’s last campaign darkly threatened “retribution.” Now we’re starting to see the horror.Former FBI Director James Comey is a particular Trump target. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Regime Welcomes Refugees!!

  

  Think the Trump regime hates refugees? Guess again!In Mid-May a group of refugees was fulsomely welcomed here, indeed given VIP treatment. Flown in on a... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Evolution: Climbing Mount Improbable

  

  A good rule of thumb in my reading is that I can’t go wrong with a Richard Dawkins book. So I picked up this 1996 one, Climbing Mount Improbable.The title is a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New DEI — Discrimination, Exclusion and Inequity

  

  “DEI” has stood for diversity, equity and inclusion. Then the Trump regime declared war on all that. So now DEI is transmogrified into discrimination,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Book Talk Tues., May 13: Why Nations Fail

  

  I will discuss “Why Nations Fail,” by Acemoglu & Robinson, Tuesday May 13, 2 PM, at Albany Library, 161 Washington Ave. This has much relevance to today’s... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• David Brooks: Incitement to Uprising

  

  Writer David Brooks (like me) spent most of his life as a “conservative.” A label whose meaning now is totally twisted. But a notable recent column marks... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Trump Regime: Bullshit All The Way Down

  

  For a decade now, U.S. news media have struggled over how to cover the maelstrom that is Trump and Trumpism. Trying to treat it all as normal news, when it’s... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ethical Jews Must Renounce Israel

  

  My neighborhood still sports some “We Stand With Israel” lawn signs. This confounds me.I grew up Jewish, my mother escaped from Nazi Germany. Israel was a brigh... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 100 Days — 1361 To Go

  

  The Albany Times-Union solicited reader thoughts on Trump’s 100-day mark. Here’s my submission:In halcyon 2009, I wrote The Case for Rational Optimism.... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The ICEman Cometh: Trump’s Criminal Gestapo

  

  Nothing was more central to the American idea than rule of law and freedom of speech.Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent U.S. resident in Vermont, was at an... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• AI: The Consciousness Problem

  

  At a 2016 presentation, computer guru David Gelernter insisted no artificial system could ever be conscious, lacking neurons. I challenged him, arguing that if... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America: The Enemy of the World

  

  America was once the envy of the world. Now the enemy of the world.Trump’s tariffs attack every country (except Russia!) as an enemy. All concretely harmed,... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• AI and Religion: The God in the Machine

  

  Artificial Intelligence is changing the world in huge ways we’re only beginning to see. My poet wife, much into AI, recently used it to help choreograph a... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The American Crisis: Can Democrats Save Us?

  

  My wife and I were invited to a day-long (8 AM to 9 PM) April 8 New York City conference run by James Carville’s “Democracy Matters” organization. Including... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Political is Personal: How I’m Feeling Now

  

  Shortly after Trump’s first term began, a group of friends were like, “We didn’t realize how bad it would be.”“I did,” said I.But I was wrong. It got even worse... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The “Manufacturing” Meshugas and Trump’s Tariff Tragedy

  

  Hearing the word “manufacturing” can make me grind my teeth. It’s a key rationale for Trump’s tariffs: to “reshore” manufacturing, bringing back those good... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Strength and Leadership

  

  “Strength” was a key psychological factor in the 2024 election. Osama Bin Laden famously said, “if people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Ugly American

  

  Not issues or policies. What tortures me most is the sheer ugliness, the disgusting classless crassness, the dishonesty. Degrading my once-beloved... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2025 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY