SocietyCommentary
No Longer the Democratic Party of JFK
In this current era of no compulsory military service, Veterans Day takes on personal meaning to fewer and fewer Americans. When the country transitioned to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In this current era of no compulsory military service, Veterans Day takes on personal meaning to fewer and fewer Americans. When the country transitioned to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Submitting my weekly column on the morning of the 2020 presidential election was surreal. But not as surreal as walking to work through an apocalyptic… Read More
SocietyCommentary
During the course of the COVID-19 crisis, an ongoing, and very legitimate, national debate has continued about the wisdom of lockdowns. The decision to shut… Read More
EconomyCommentary
I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class. Two students… Read More
EconomyCommentary
New York City is becoming an economic basket case. “‘We’re at war’: New York City Faces a Financial Abyss,” screams a New York Times headline…. Read More
LawCommentary
Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, says, “Our No. 1 goal must be to communicate the stakes of this Supreme Court fight to the American people.”… Read More
InternationalCommentary
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman observed in a column he wrote in 1996 that “no two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever… Read More
EconomyCommentary
As Washington has been frozen in debate about whether to pass massive new economic stimulus legislation, something interesting has happened in the real world. In… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
As so much despair has gripped our nation during this difficult time, I decided to go into our nation’s most distressed communities with a message… Read More