History is being lost. It is being reconfigured to satisfy modern tastes and to shame and condemn what came before. Soon all that will remain are memes. By reading the [ … ]

  Disclaimers, trigger alerts and microaggression: I was born and raised in NYC. I am 50 years old. My bio is here I am a (liberal?) Democrat. I have given, hosted,bundled, been [ … ]

I watched (almost) the entire Republican Convention and I have watched almost the entire Democratic Convention. There is still one day left, tonight Hillary will speak. I know many of [ … ]

Dear Ethicist, My wife and I were on a subway car, a panhandler presented herself as blind and crippled. We gave her a dollar. A few minutes later we were [ … ]

I am Meredith McIver. So are you. “We are all Meredith McIver” – Meredith McIver It is self-evident that there is no ‘real’ person who ‘is’ Meredith McIver. That literary [ … ]

Our political system has transformed. The change is mostly complete and I don’t think cosmetic changes, whichever ornament tops the tree, matters much beyond stylistic preferences. The Judiciary, Legislative, Executive [ … ]

Have you ever seen that movie, I forget its name… It’s about that kindly white women (or maybe it was a guy) who gets transferred to teach at the ‘tough [ … ]

I was a partisan. Now I am not. I am a Democrat at the exit. DemExit The incomprehensibly privileged treatment of Hillary and her impossibly possible run for President is [ … ]

Disclaimer I voted for Bernie Sanders in the NY primary. Ostracism was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens [ … ]

We are in the midst of a transformation. It is political, it is business. it is capital and at the end of its last mile is the citizen/consumer. I wrote [ … ]