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by Marc Jampole IT DOESN’T SURPRISE me that in the weeks after his death, the mainstream and rightwing news media have treated Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as if he were Robert E. Lee, who is traditionally presented as an admirable hero who served his country well. Both were brilliant and prominent men whose distorted […]
Read Moreby George Salamon “THEY’RE FINISHED. The Ivy League Schools are finished,” said President Richard M. Nixon on May 18, 1972. Boy, was he ever wrong. But he could not have sensed just how wrong. That was revealed in the startling warning issued by the just-deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his June 26, 2015 […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush Is there a Yiddish expression for I know I shouldn’t say this but thank God he’s dead? Borekh dayin emes, he’s gone. No evil eye. Ptui, ptui.
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Notorious RBG, by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. Dey Street Books, 2015, 240 pages. I SAT DOWN to read Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik’s book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Notorious RBG, with some trepidation. Though I had seen the authors speak and was impressed by their sincerity, intelligence, […]
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor THIS HAS BEEN a week for exposing the public’s general ignorance about American history and our entire political system. My 7th-grade social studies teacher, Miss Kelly, told us that if we remembered everything we learned through the 6th grade, we’d seem like geniuses all our lives. Back then that was true: Who […]
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