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• 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

• America’s Eviction Problem

  

  A trivial incident — kids throwing snowballs at a car. Next thing you know, Arleen, a single Milwaukee mother, is evicted. Sheriff guys give her a choice: all... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Polygamy Problem

  

  “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Or several, in many places in the world. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Was America Founded as a “Christian Nation?”

  

  We’re often told that it was. The aim is to cast secularism as somehow un-American, and override the Constitution’s separation of church and state. But it’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bye Bye Britain

  

  A parent’s decline and demise is a sad thing. Britain was our mother country.The Brits turned a bad corner in voting for Brexit — that is, to leave the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fact of the Day

  

  According to a June 28 article in The Economist, the number of people employed in China censoring internet content is estimated to exceed two million. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Reveal” International Contemporary Art Fair in Saratoga Springs

  

  We had lucked out during vacation trips to Dubai and San Francisco, happening upon unanticipated international art shows in both places. So when I saw there’d b... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• QAnon and the Republican War on Reality

  

  “QAnon” is the handle of an online person or group claiming access to all kinds of secret information (“Q” refers to a high security clearance) about “deep... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mitch Landrieu and Confederate Monuments

  

  Mitch Landrieu was mayor of New Orleans, 2010-18. In 2015 he started the process of removing Confederate monuments. Landrieu expected opposition, but its... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pascal’s Wager

  

  Assume 50-50 odds of God existing or not. Which way should you bet? With your afterlife, that is. This is “Pascal’s wager.”Blaise Pascal was a 17th century... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Democrats’ Divide

  

  Many Democrats insist they mustn’t be namby-pamby, but instead run as full-throated unapologetic “progressives” — as tax-the-rich class and social justice... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is Happiness?

  

  There is no bigger question. After all, what is the point of life? I’ve authored a book titled Life, Liberty, and Happiness, arguing that ultimately the only... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY