Oct 8, 2016
TWO JEWISH WALLS
Something there is that doesn't love a wall. Something there is that does. People there are that do not love a wall. People there are that do.
One of them is Benjamin Netanyahu, the...
Herein a sequence of interesting exchanges with the Jewish Museum in Berlin. I suppose I was asked to contribute because of my novel, Golem Song.
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Back in Feb, 2016, I was asked...
Sep 25, 2016
Below is a commentary I wrote on a piece published in the Vermont Digger, attacking the F-35 -- which will be based here in Burlington -- as a colossal political boondoggle. I begin with the article....
Sep 25, 2016
Reading through Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s minutely sourced and annotated book, The Untold History of the United States, I was struck by the language and thought-structures enunciated by our...
The best teacher I ever had was a philosopher-historian named Hans Meyerhoff. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, he held forth on "Existentialism in Literature" in the largest hall on the UCLA...