Rhetoric around the rise of Donald Trump to the presidency has raised, once again, the question of the relationship between Islam and terror. Unfortunately, the […]
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 […]
Promises to the Disappeared: Art in the Wake of Chile’s 9-11
This past month the United States solemnly commemorated the eighth anniversary of 9/11/01. While life in the U.S. has largely returned to normal in the […]
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 […]
Francis Fukuyama’s new start
Francis Fukuyama, best known for his book The End of History and the Last Man, now aims to tackle all human history, middle, beginning and […]
Harry Potter and the tide of history
The final installment of the Harry Potter movie series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, has been accompanied by chatter about what it […]
Trapped in history: “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
In December 1994, explorers walking through southern France’s rocky environment found a slight disturbance in the air, coming from the rocks. They began to dig […]
Too many teachers reject or ignore evolution
Something needs to be done about teachers who simply refuse to educate kids. We’re not talking the anti-union, anti-teacher rhetoric of the news media and […]
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 […]