Fsrcoin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1455 )

• Mario Cuomo and Bess Myerson

  

  My view of Mario Cuomo was not colored by his having knocked me publicly.I was a PSC administrative law judge, presiding over a case involving Long Island’s... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Has Progress Stalled?

  

  On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers achieved a 12-second, 120-foot flight. Within about half a century, we were flying to Europe in eight hours. After a... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Big is a Googolplex?

  

  K.C. Cole is an award-winning science writer, whose 1998 book The Universe and the Teacup—The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, I typically found at a used book... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Big Picture

  

  For all America’s partisan divisions, we’re in remarkable agreement on one thing: the country is on the “wrong track,” the American dream is struggling, and... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Christmas in July: An Economic Program

  

  It’s fashionable to decry the commercialism and materialism of Christmas. And I recently reviewed Naomi Klein’s book saying we must cut back our consumer... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My So-Called Political Career – Rage Against the Machine

  

  When young, I was mad for politics; active in both campus and local Republican politics in Queens, NY – generally playing the outsider-provocateur-clown. Yet I... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ebola: God’s Punishment for Homosexuality?

  

  Recently the Liberian Council of Churches met, with over 100 participants, to discuss Ebola. They unanimously resolved “That God is angry with Liberia, and... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Torturing America

  

  Some things are just wrong. Absolutely, and always. Surely torture is one of them. That it’s even necessary to say this, in America, in the 21st century, seems... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Building Trust Between Police and the Policed

  

  The non-indictment of Officer Wilson, in Ferguson, for Michael Brown’s death, was justifiable. Brown had just committed a robbery and was being violent. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Campus Rape and “Affirmative Consent” – Feminism Off the Rails?

  

  One in five college women is sexually assaulted – we’re told. I have a daughter in college (see her comments, below). But I’m skeptical about that statistic;... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov

  

  I’ve written before about North Korea. This 2013 book changed my view. (Ideologues take note.) I previously felt that the policies of the international communit... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Not to Save the Planet – Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”

  

  Globalization. Trade. Market Economics. Capitalism. Corporations. Economic growth. Writer Naomi Klein hates it all. Her book, This Changes Everything, argues... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• My Unconscious Racial Bias

  

  I bridle when I hear talk of persistent American racism. Sure, there is some. And, yes, after-effects of past racial injustice. But real racists today are... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Boy, Was I Wrong – Nonvoters Rule!

  

  Before the election, I said “Obama might be forced to get serious about accommodation with Republicans, on such urgent issues as tax reform and immigration, to... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Edge of Tomorrow” – Groundhog Day All Over Again

  

  The space invaders have already conquered Europe. Humans hope to stop them with a reprise of the D-Day landings – complete with paratroopers (though using bunge... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• When I Was a Kid America Was Like Africa

  

  Waiting for the TV news, I caught the end of “Homework Hotline.” A little girl called in; She said she’d come from Africa. So the host asked her: “How does... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• November 9 – 25 Years Later – Save The Wall

  

  1962I was a kid when I went by myself one time to the 1964 New York World’s Fair – I lived nearby – and wandered into the West German pavilion. There was a... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Earth Moves

  

  Early peoples might be forgiven had they viewed the stars as just a kind of wallpaper, without significance. Yet we always sensed something important out... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Midterms, Obamasis, and Cuomosis

  

  Tomorrow is Election Day. Republicans may well take the Senate, mainly because President Obama is so unpopular. That unpopularity, unfortunately, is justified. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Americanah — Please Smack This Woman

  

  AdichieIfemelu didn’t know she was black – until, as a teenager, she came to America from Nigeria. She’s the focus of Nigerian/American Chimamanda Ngozi... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY