The Philosopher's Stone

Listing the names of my relatives who died in Auschwitz brought home to me [thanks to Jerry Fresia’s perceptive comment] the importance of ...

Jerry Fresia asks whether I knew personally any of my relatives who died in the Death Camps.  Since they died when I was nine, the answer i...

As the horrors of the next four years unfold, with Climate Change deniers, women's reproductive rights opponents, public school opponent...

I begin the first of two posts responding to comments by Jerry Fresia.  This post is a response to the following lengthy comment from yeste...

Ivanka Trump is offering a personal thirty to forty-tive minute meeting with the highest bidder, with $50,000 the suggested price.  This doe...

I have read with some bemusement the extended comments on this blog about the charges that Russia interfered with the American election.  A...

I have for some time been vaguely aware of a certain discord between myself and a number of commentators to this blog whose politics are ve...