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• Inequality, Wage Stagnation, and Free Stuff

  

  Recent years have seen much agitation about inequality, and the seeming fact that middle-income earnings have risen very little, if at all, in recent decades.... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Depths of Depravity

  

  “Believe me,” he says, “believe me.”A constant verbal tic. As if his subconscious knows he won’t be believed. You might think a man widely called a liar might... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sexual Harassment: Revolution, Or Witch Hunt?

  

  I had thought we were done here, the rules made clear 25 years ago with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. But apparently a lot of guys still didn’t get the memo.... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Soul of the First Amendment

  

  How far should free speech go?Floyd Abrams is the country’s leading First Amendment lawyer. I bought his book, The Soul of the First Amendment, at the recent... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What’s So Bad About Infidelity?

  

  We have loosened up tremendously in matters sexual. Just letting people pick their own partners was a huge liberalization. Now we can not only pick them, but... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Depraved Disregard for Truth Undermines Democracy

  

  Mary McCarthy famously said of Lillian Hellman, Every word she writes is a lie, including “and” and “the.” Tuesday Trump said, about Alabama Senate candidate... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Khizr Khan — What America Means

  

  There’s a lot of flag waving these days. Often with no clue what it really means.Khizr Khan knows what it means. He got it as a law student in Pakistan, in a... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Moore, Franken, Trump, Sex, and Power

  

  Harvey Weinstein. Bill Cosby. Bill O’Reilly. Bill Clinton. Kevin Spacey. Louis C.K. Michael Oreskes. Roy Moore. Donald J. Trump.Abusing power to get sexual... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Should Democrats Do?

  

  Back-to-back I read columns by Michael Gerson and The Economist’s “Lexington” discussing the Democrats’ predicament.Gerson is a Republican horrified by his own... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Statistical Wisdom and Weldon’s Dice

  

  I went to a library talk, by my friend Jonathan Skinner, reviewing a book, The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, by Stephen Stigler. Jonathan was a... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Roy Moore and Christian Hypocrisy

  

  Alabama has a special Senate election in December for the Jeff Sessions seat. Governor Robert Bentley had appointed Luther Strange to the seat. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Magical Thinking in America

  

  Mass shootings keep us revisiting the gun issue. Many Americans want guns for self-protection in the home. But guns in homes overwhelmingly shoot family members... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Republican Tax Plan: “A Big Beautiful Christmas Present” Or Coal in Our...

  

  The real question: why?Why this Republican tax proposal? Well, it’s billed as “reform,” and God knows our federal tax system is an ungodly mess crying out for... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Embezzlement Mysteries

  

  Our local paper reported a 54-year-old woman bookkeeper busted for stealing over $800,000 from her employer, between 2009 and 2016, by writing over 1,000... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Indictments

  

  Paul Manafort, who was chairman of Trump’s campaign, made millions from some of the world’s worst villains (like the murderer Putin), advising them how to... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My 11/7 Talk on the Drug War

  

  At noon Tuesday, November 7 (Election Day) I will talk about the drug war, reviewing Johann Hari’s book Chasing the Scream, at the Albany Public Library, 161... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Jones Act — How Protectionism Sank Our Fleet

  

  Remember Trump ordering a temporary waiver of the Jones Act, to get help to Puerto Rico? What was that all about?The Jones Act, passed in 1920, limits shipping... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Theresa Cooke: Joan of Arc

  

  She gave me this photo for my bookTheresa Cooke (like me) came to Albany in 1970. She was shocked by the misfeasance and non-transparency of local government,... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World: a Symposium

  

  “The press is not the enemy of the people. It’s the enemy of liars.” — Frank S. RobinsonThis was a program of the New York State Writers Institute, founded by... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Media in the Age of New Technology: Fake News, Information Overload & Media...

  

  Schieffer(Panelists Tim Wu (originator of “net neutrality”); Franklin Foer; Maria Hinojosa; David Goodman. Moderator: news legend Bob Schieffer)“Satan has come... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2017 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY