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• Refugees: When the Doors Flew Open

  

  My friend Olga arrived here as a Soviet Jewish refugee in 1979; I’ve written about her. She got out just before the door slammed shut. The USSR was one big... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• BREAKING NEWS: Amid Election Chaos, Trump Urges Shutdown

  

  NOVEMBER 3, 2020By James Thorntonand Julie MontalbanoAssociated Press____________________________________ Washington With today’s U.S. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Science for Heretics” — A Nihilistic View of Science

  

  Physicist Barrie Condon has written Science for Heretics: Why so much of science is wrong. Basically arguing that science cannot really understand the world, an... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Insanity: a Global Contagion

  

  Hong Kong is China’s richest, most advanced, most economically vibrant part. When Britain agreed to return it in 1997, the deal was “one country, two systems. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Race Hate Will Destroy America

  

  Previously I’ve condensed here Michael Gerson columns. Last Thursday’s deserves reading in Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats and America’s Soul

  

  In the debates, the Democratic candidates had much to say about policy issues. But that isn’t what this election is about. It’s about America’s soul. What the... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Suffer the Little Children

  

  Child separation: first they cited the Bible to defend it. Then they said it’s the law — a lie. Then Trump said it was an Obama policy he was stopping. A lie... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump and the White Trash Syndrome

  

  Not all antebellum Southern whites owned slaves. Most were much too poor. They lived in squalor. But they had one consolation: holding themselves above blacks. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New York’s Sick Joke of a “governmental Ethics Watchdog”

  

  New York State’s “Joint Commission on Public Ethics” (JCOPE) was created by the “Public Integrity Reform Act” to “restore public trust in... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How to Pick up Girls in Ancient Rome

  

  “The past is a different country; they do things differently there.” We often romanticize “the good old days” because we’ve forgotten what they were really like... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Golden Door Slammed Shut

  

  A traveler was robbed and beaten, left half-dead beside the road. Two passers-by ignored him. Finally another stopped to help, treated his wounds, took him to a... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Now It’s Official: Republicans Don’t Know Right from Wrong

  

  Michael Gerson is a Republican, former G.W. Bush speech writer, and columnist. Please read his latest column below. (I have condensed it considerably.)* Susan... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Go Back to the Sewer You Came From, Trump

  

  America was built by people coming here from all over, to take part in our great enterprise. That’s central to what America means.But some Americans... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Who’s Really a Citizen?

  

  Trick question: what’s the world’s second biggest Muslim country?If you said America, shame on you. Everyone (who’s reasonably informed) knows Indonesia has... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another Day, Another Protest

  

  I attended Friday’s Albany protest against Trump’s inhuman cruelty to migrant people. Some things one has to do.Quite a few asked to take pictures of my sign.... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Social Disconnection and Trumpism

  

  “Grab them by the pussy.” I’ve striven to understand how any Americans could vote to put such a reptile in the White House.Columnist David Brooks keeps saying... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• William Kennedy and Magical Realism

  

  William Kennedy (now 91) is the great Albany author. Others (like Melville) have had Albany connections, but in Kennedy’s oeuvre, Albany itself holds center... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump at the Rubicon

  

  Julius Caesar’s army in Gaul was not authorized to enter Italy. Crossing the Rubicon River made him an outlaw. But he then proceeded to Rome to make himself... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

  

  (A condensed version of my June 18 book review talk)In this 2017 book Kurt Andersen is very retro; believes in truth, reason, science, and facts. But he sees... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Making Burundi Great Again

  

  Burundi is a very fortunate country. True, they had a 12-year tribal civil war killing 300,000, but that ended in 2005. Fewer die these days. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2019 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY