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• The Anti-Trump Albany Book Festival

  

  This event, put on by the wonderful New York State Writers Institute, was not really political. But nobody would read this if I just titled it “Albany Book... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• An Hysterical Republican Message

  

  Because I once contributed, I still get Republican fundraising emails. It’s a revealing — and scary — window into their world. (Click here for one parroting... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Non-ugly American in Somaliland: Jonathan Starr’s Abaarso School

  

  Bad news abounds. Even efforts to improve the world often do the opposite — that’s the history of foreign aid and development initiatives. “Ugly American”... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kavanaugh: America Grabbed by the Pussy

  

  He said/she said. She testified about sexual transgressions by the Supreme Court nominee. He rejoined with an emphatic, highly emotional denial. I was inclined... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Cruel War on Refugees and Immigrants Intensifies

  

  When, for this post, I googled “U.S. refugee admissions,” the very first thing that came up was this quote on the State Department’s website:“The United States... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Statement by the Honorable Brett Kavanaugh

  

  Members of the Senate, and fellow citizens:Telling the truthTwo women — Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and Deborah Ramirez — have described episodes of improper... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• White Pride and White Privilege

  

  Omarosa, in her book, tells of asking Steve Bannon whether it’s true that he’s a racist. “No,” he answered. “The same way you are a proud African-American woman... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

  

  Which among the three would you choose?I read Howard Gardner’s 2011 book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-first... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Idlib: the Coming Holocaust

  

  Idlib is the last part of Syria still holding out against the Assad regime. Which, together with its Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah allies, is readying a... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Readers’ Poll

  

  1. Trump recently tweeted that the Department of Justice should not have indicted two “very popular” Republican congressmen for crimes before the mid-term... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Richard Wolff in Sheep’s Clothing, on Capitalism Versus Socialism

  

  I heard Richard Wolff again on “Alternative [left-wing] Radio.” He’s the “Marxist” economics professor whose LOL take on first class airplane seats I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Vote for the Homo, Not for Cuomo

  

  In the 1977 New York mayoral primary, Mario Cuomo was running against Ed Koch — unmarried and rumored to be gay. Shortly before the vote, posters appeared... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New York Times “Anonymous” Op-ed

  

  I defer to another guest column, by Francis Wilkinson in Bloomberg Opinion. Every word is on target. Edited by me for brevity:Some people in the White House... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Dishonest Kavanaugh Charade

  

  Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” Well, settled law is what the Supreme Court says. Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Trump Tax on Cars

  

  NAFTA was a bad deal, the worst deal ever, sending jobs to Mexico. Our imports exceed exports, a bad thing. Trump’s tough talk of tariffs against Mexico made... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My New York Primary Endorsements

  

  I enrolled last year as a Democrat, to vote in primaries to keep the party from veering too far left. That is complicated in New York because of the Cuomo... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump is the Antichrist

  

  Fundamentalist Christians have long been obsessed with the Antichrist. He figured prominently in the “Left Behind” books. Not an abstraction, the Antichrist... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Robert Ingersoll — the Greatest Man You Never Heard of

  

  We went to a Syracuse shindig celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Robert Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. Run by the Center for Inquiry, a secular humanist... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• John McCain

  

  The two presidential candidates I was most proud to support were both Arizonans. I believe that had John McCain won in 2008, America today would be in far bette... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Manafort, Cohen, and the Prevaricator of the United States

  

  ManafortPaul Manafort was Trump’s campaign chief. Bad enough that he worked for foreign villains like Yanukovych, whom even Ukraine couldn’t stomach (which is... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY