Review: “L’ebreo” (The Jew) a play by The Cosmos Club
In L'ebreo, Buonarotti riffs on the Jewish stereotypes of his time, treating them as comic fodder. The biggest bigots get the biggest laughs
In L'ebreo, Buonarotti riffs on the Jewish stereotypes of his time, treating them as comic fodder. The biggest bigots get the biggest laughs
"Zero tolerance" of youthful indiscretion, means people who never leave their rooms will qualify. Themistocles says that, "Wild colts make the best horses."
The founding fathers wrote in a series of checks and balances so that no branch of the government had more power than another. Now presidents routinely sign Executive Orders. Is that against the original intent of the founders?
Unfortunately for both the President and the GOP, the results of Election 2018 scarcely resemble what Trump is now calling "a great victory."
WASHINGTON: Those of us old enough to remember segregation, understand the nature of identity politics. In those days, judgment of men and women begins with racial identity. Under Jim Crow, many have no right to vote or the freedom to stay in hotels. Signs say “white only” restrooms or drinking fountains. The goal of people ...
WASHINGTON. Roelof Pik Botha, the last foreign minister under apartheid rule in South Africa will be layed to rest today. Botha, who served in the cabinet of Nelson Mandela, died in Pretoria on October 12 at the age of 86. Because of his penchant for dressing in a suit and tie as a young man, ...
WASHINGTON: Suddenly, we are hearing a great deal about “socialism.” A Gallup Poll in August found that 57 percent of Democrats said they view socialism positively. Other polls show the popularity of socialism among millennials and politicians such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez achieved celebrity promoting socialism, after she defeated the fourth-ranked Democratic House leader, Joseph Crowley, ...
WASHINGTON. One of the ironies of our society at the present time is that, as political passions rise, the knowledge of American history is in decline. Particularly, how our system of constitutional government works. Or is supposed to. The evidence of this decline is all around us. Recently, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation conducted ...
WASHINGTON: Executive power has been steadily growing, regardless of which party is in power. The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to declare war. Still, we have gone to war in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan upon the authority of the president alone. Today, the president, on his own authority, imposes tariffs upon China, Canada ...
WASHINGTON: In the past, Americans seemed to understand a difference in economic policy between the two parties. Democrats, we thought, supported deficit spending and, with the embrace of labor unions, tariffs upon foreign products, to protect American manufacturers from competition. Republicans and conservatives, on the other hand, call for balanced budgets and free trade. Now, ...
Right of Refugees, Palestine, Israel, UNWRA, Allan Brownfeld, ending aid to Palestine
WASHINGTON: America has lost a great deal with the Death of John McCain. He was a military hero. When he was shot down and crash landed his plane in a small lake in the heart of Hanoi in 1967, the crash broke bones in his arms and shoulders. After he was captured, he underwent years ...
Uri Avnery was preparing to attend a demonstration in opposition to Israel's current retreat from democracy. Palestine has lost a valuable defender.
WASHINGTON: A report by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury reports on the Catholic Church epidemic of child abuse. Furthermore, the report implicates more than 300 Catholic priests who sexually abused children over the last seven decades. Knowing of the epidemic of abuse, those priests were then protected by a Catholic Church hierarchy who covered it up. The ...
WASHINGTON: It has often been said that politics makes strange bedfellows. Such is the case of America’s Right and Vladimir Putin. Examining the close ties which are emerging between Vladimir Putin and certain elements of America’s right-wing places President Trump’s Helsinki meeting with Putin and the controversy about Russia’s role in the 2016 election into ...
America's politicians and intellectuals have a history of misunderstanding Russia. We have misunderstood Moscow in the past, and done so at our peril. It is important that we do not do so again.
It is sad to see the conservatism which emerged after World War II now essentially gone. Hopefully, it will rise again, for our society needs both genuine conservatives and liberals to thrive. Now, it is missing both.
WASHINGTON: An opinion poll published in June shows deep divisions between Israelis and American Jews. The survey of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) found that 77 percent of Israelis approved of President Donald Trump’s handling of U.S.-Israel relations, while only 34 percent of American Jews did. Eighty-five percent of Israelis supported the decision to move ...
Mr. Rogers was a trailblazing pioneer who, rather than just sit and whine about the world made it his mission to go out and change it. We could use more voices like his asking, Won't you be my neighbor.
Baltimore, known as Charm City, is not seeing a reduction in their homicide or violent crime rates, despite national statistics showing other areas are decreasing. Why? Charm City takes viewers through the processes Baltimore resident, community organizers, government and police are taking to change that.