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The Rational Optimist
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Commentary of Life, Society, Politics, and Philosophy
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Religion Wrecking Israel
We’re often told religion provides “comfort.” It’s understandably comforting to imagine death isn’t death. Though a more authentically meaningful life can be... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
About Fox News: Just Facts, No Rhetoric
As a writer, I love language, the challenge of putting ideas into words. To find just the right words to convey something.Hyperbole is extreme language. Read more
Posted on 11 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
How Identity Politics Hurts Democrats
I heard a radio report about Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Cal.) declaring her candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Asked why she’s running, virtually the first word in reply... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Freedom of Speech — Can of Worms
Elon Musk said he was taking over Twitter in the name of free speech. Twitter was faulted for trying to keep a lid on harmful craziness. Read more
Posted on 04 March 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Philosophy of Train Derailments: Stuff Happens
Firstly regarding the train derailment, it’s a sickening cheap shot for Republicans to fault President Biden for being in Europe, not Ohio. Read more
Posted on 28 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Trump Shitstorm, My Book Talk March 7
I will talk about my new book —The American Crisis: Chronicling and Confronting the Trump Shitstorm — on Tuesday, March 7, at noon, at the Albany Public Library... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Masculinity Crisis
I’ve written about “lookism”* — discrimination against the less attractive. Graduating law school in 1970, I wasn’t ugly, but short, which didn’t help my career... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Sam Harris on the Evil of Religion
Sam Harris was one of the famous “four horsemen” of “new atheist” writers (along with Dawkins, Dennett, and Hitchens). He’s actually not materialist enough for... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Ukraine: The Long and the Short of It
Long war or short war? That seems to be the question. Putin apparently had fantasized a very short war, Ukraine a pushover — believing it’s not really even a... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Why You Can’t Trust Your Brain
I heard a talk by Dr. Caleb Lack, a clinical psychologist and author. His topic: Why You Can’t Trust Your Brain.Well, whose brain can you trust? Read more
Posted on 11 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Christopher Hitchens’s Pen is Envy Inducing
Christopher Hitchens died of cancer in 2011 at 62 — a stupendous loss. He was best known as one of “new atheism’s” “four horsemen” for his book God is Not... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Memphis — And Our Perennial Police Problem
“Look, life is nasty, brutish, and short, but you knew that when you became a caveman.”“Nasty, brutish, and short” was Thomas Hobbes’s descriptor for life in a... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Democrats and Non-white Voters
I wanted to scream, hearing a recent radio panel discussion about voting rights legislation. The talk was all about “politicians” not caring enough to pass... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
UFO Abductions and America’s Reality Crisis
People on America’s right are in thorough reality denial. Headlined of course by the 2020 “stolen election” lie. False beliefs about Covid and vaccines cost man... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
China’s Covid Catastrophe
When Covid began three years ago in Wuhan, China’s regime acted ruthlessly to contain it, with draconian lockdown, testing, and quarantining rules. Read more
Posted on 19 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Political Double Standards, Whataboutism, and Classified Documents
Promoting my “Trump Shitstorm” book has been an interesting experience. When I show it to someone, the cover usually provokes a strong reaction. Read more
Posted on 16 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Judge LaSalle and the Left’s Performative Politics
Governor Hochul has nominated Brooklyn Judge Hector LaSalle for New York’s Chief Justice, headlining this as the first Latino in that post.Such ethnicization... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Biden at the Border: Democrats and Immigration
President Biden has now made a show of visiting the southern border. The one promise he made to me personally in 2020 was to end Trump’s cruel war on refugees... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
My Book Talk, “The Trump Shitstorm,” SAT. JAN. 14, 3 PM
Hi,You’re invited to a talk and open discussion on my new book, THE AMERICAN CRISIS: Chronicling and Confronting the TRUMP SHITSTORM — 3 PM, next SATURDAY,... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The United States House of Reprehensibles
I kept warning that voters giving Congressional power to these Republicans would be insane.Kevin McCarthy is a reprehensible character, totally self-serving... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2023 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY