Now it’s Yom HaShoah, the day when Jews around the world, in both Israel and the diaspora, commemorate the 6 million Jews slaughtered by the […]
Category: Current events
“13 Reasons Why” Turtleboy Sports is dangerous
There’s not much that I can add to the conversation around 13 Reasons Why, which, if you haven’t seen it yet, is probably the best […]
Yesterday’s Terror: Are We Already Starting to Forget?
As I write this, the block where I used to work in Chelsea, New York City, is still an active crime scene, as investigators try […]
Alienation and despair: The dark side of progress
Clearly something is wrong in the Western world. These problems are most evident in the UK and the U.S. In Britain, a campaign propelled by […]
Initial thoughts on Orlando
Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. He was right about the repetition, and about the sheer lunacy of […]
Labor Department official says U.S. needs independent labor media
Generally, I avoid posting news articles I’ve written here, but this is on an important topic, and it is a subject rarely covered in the news […]
From Fatwa to Jihad
Most comments on the rise of radical Islam tend to fall into either a left or right wing version of political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s […]
Book Review: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why it Matters
Over the past few months, North Korea has been been in the headlines even more than usual. A partial list includes a revelation through the […]
Forced labor: a global menace
UNITED NATIONS—Anna, now 21 years old, was born in the Ukrainian town of Kamenets-Podolsky, then still a part of the Soviet Union. During her early […]
Spy Girl: A look at South Korea’s mindset
Sometimes fiction can be as illuminating as documentary. A pop culture film, by its very definition, offers a glimpse into the mindset of both those […]