Year: 2025

Putin and Trump’s dance about negotiations to settle the Russo-Ukraine War is nothing more than a charade bringing more death and suffering to the Ukrainian people. Like Nero, they fiddle in the face of destruction as they dance about to achieve their nefarious schemes: Putin to render Ukraine defeated and impotent; for Trump a scalp…

Trump is a dangerous racist. It’s been more than 100 years since we’ve had an outright racist in the White House, the last being Woodrow Wilson, an apologist for slavery, who actively worked against admission of African Americans to Princeton and, as president, mandated that the federal workforce be segregated by race. Trump’s racism is…

It is impossible to read, watch or listen to the news without recoiling from what is happening in the United States. It seems as if all the great accomplishments of western civilization from the Renaissance to the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment and even the Industrial Revolution are under attack by barbarians bent…

Recently, over dinner with friends, the topic of Trump and his threat to our democracy came up. The hand-wringing and disbelief about what was happening made me suggest that we needed to speak up, even when provoked by longtime MAGA friends. Not surprisingly, there was an air of hopelessness given that all of us were…

Somehow it seems like justice that the election of the new Pope dominated the news cycle and blew Trump off the front pages. For me it was a needed tonic to the drumbeat of hate and discord that comes from the Trump camp. More importantly, the historical announcement of an American Pope and its meaning…

One of the wonderful things about being up here in the woods is that there are no distractions, there’s no noise, no one just dropping by, no place I have to go or something I must do. The solitude gives one time to think; even more, it encourages thinking thoughts about existential matters. I’m writing…

The most cursory glance at Donald Trump’s life would alert a truly dispassionate critic that he could not be trusted to be president. That said, I join mainstream critics who have been reluctant to compare him to Adolph Hitler and the NAZIs. Many of us thought doing so would not be good history, that there…

I’m writing these words from the North Georgia Mountains, my querencia as the Spanish say, meaning a safe haven, home and a place from which one draws strength. It’s here that I feel most whole, secure and at peace. The solitude recharges me. Right now it is raining, playing a symphony on the tin roof,…

The Canadians did the right thing and stood up for themselves and sent a strong message that they would not succumb to bullyism and a wannabe dictator down south. In doing so, CANADA just might be the “greatest country in the world.” They apparently put their domestic differences aside and came together against what they…

Canadians vote today to choose parliamentary representatives and the next prime minister. Polls and word on the street seem to favor the Liberals to win again largely as a backlash at Trump and his policies toward Canada. As they say up that way, they “got their elbows up” and are ready for a fight. We’ll…