I still remember reading about comments that pop-star Justin Bieber made when visiting Anne Frank House in Amsterdam- he said he hoped she would “have been a Belieber,” referring to the set of groupies and fans who adored him. I recall being floored by the comment- so callous and so…

Six years ago, I wrote an article that appeared on Countercurrents, just as this one does. The piece was strident, even didactic, but was in large part a plea. The notion was to explain why the pathology of “free content” creates a race to the bottom in journalism. …

When I touched down at Denver airport, the fun began. As it was, I was getting in quite late and had a 90-minute-plus drive ahead of me to Colorado Springs. Conferences are back! …

Some years ago I had drinks with 4 acquaintances. All of these fellows claimed they loved to read about history and to a one, suggested that World War 2 was their area of expertise. A drink in, I started to hold forth on the Soviet contribution to the war and…

About a year ago, someone gave me a copy of Marie Kondo’s “Spark Joy.” I had heard of the book but was uninterested in it. It lay around my office, sometimes on my desk, sometimes on the floor. A few times I tripped over it. I ignored it for months. Just last week I took it to half-price books. I think I got $1.25 –it was a pristine, untouched copy after all. I was so happy to get rid of it. No more tripping over its carcass, no more of my office real estate occupied.

It gives me no pleasure to quote Cromwell, but so apposite was his dismissal of the Rump Parliament in 1653 as it relates to Trump and his cronies today- You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately … Depart, I say; and let us have…

You did not know did you? That my house gives me rights. You did not know did you? That my house gives me virtue. Food, Clothing, Shelter I demand that you are not naked But not full or warm I won’t offer you sleep Not on my lawn Or even in a park Not here, I say Brooms and authorities both sweep The dust, the garbage. My TV blares I sing with Alexa I have a house You stay quiet What you know That I will not see

The American Pageant has become a Greek Tragedy. The outcomes in America are always clear and predictable. Nothing has brought that into bolder relief than the Covid-19 Pandemic and Americans’ response to it. From the beginning, we knew it would get out of control in the US. A population for…

With the recent Democratic win in the US election, all sorts of people have been calling for a “lowering of the temperature,” “coming together,” and “forgiving and forgetting.” “Let’s heal,” they say and “move forward.” “Now,” they say, “is not the time for politics.” Notoriously- and righteously- missing from this…