Tag Archives: Trump
The Uncivil Servant: Ave Caesar!
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Landmark Julius Caesar, edited and translated by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Pantheon, 2017, 793 pages. AS I WAS READING the magnificent new Landmark edition of Julius Caesar’s works, my initial instinct was to relate the Roman leader to the anti-democrats of today, starting — of course — with our […]
Read MoreOpEdge: Making of Our Tables One Table
TRUMP AND THE FEAR OF DIFFERENCE by Marc Jampole SOMETHING QUITE WONDERFUL happened to my wife and me the other day during our annual public humiliation, which is how we refer to our one trip a year to buy sweet kosher wine — always for our seder. We entered the neighborhood liquor store near Hunter College and sheepishly asked […]
Read MoreWhat’s Going to Happen to American Democracy?
by Dusty Sklar Discussed in this essay: How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. Penguin/Random House, 2018, 320 pages. THESE DAYS, all sane Americans are wringing their hands over the threats to our democracy posed by the Trump presidency and the Republican power monopoly in Washington. Two thoughtful Harvard professors of government have now […]
Read MoreElijah at the White House, 2018
Another Short Play by Joel Schechter Characters: Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Jared Kushner, Secret Service agents, Children 1, 2, 3, Stormy Daniels and other guests. Setting: A Passover dinner table in the White House. We hear the Trump family singing a song about Elijah.
Read MoreOpEdge: Truth vs. Republican Whitewashing
by Marc Jampole A SPOKESPERSON for U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) just resigned rather than tell a bold-faced lie that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other ICE officials have been floating. They have been complaining that about eight hundred undocumented immigrants escaped arrest because Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned the community that ICE raids were coming. […]
Read MoreThinking of Leaving America? Here’s a Couple Who Did
Marty Roth and Martha Roth Discuss Their Move to Canada in 2005 Marty: Strictly speaking, Martha is the expatriate. I was just a lost Canadian returning to the country of my birth after fifty-four years. But after fifty-four years, I surely thought of myself as an American. I had just retired from an academic position at the University […]
Read More#MeToo, Said Mother Earth
by Aaron Dorman “God gave us the Earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.” –Ann Coulter, 2001 “I think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as a policy . . . it looks like water pipes leaking lead and poisoning young minds […]
Read MoreDevils in America: A Short Play
by Joel Schechter Author’s Note: The following short play was not written by Tony Kushner. It offers dialogue missing from Kushner’s play, Angels in America, which originally featured several other scenes with the late American lawyer and McCarthyism enabler Roy Cohn. More recently, the current President of the United States expressed a wish that his old friend […]
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