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In yet another sign that he and his running-mate Casey are complete, shameless frauds, Ron is now attacking “elites.”

“Elite Colleges Prefer Wealth” is the subhead in today’s New York Times story unpacking a new report by Opportunity Insights that details the “extent to which being very rich is its own qualification in selective college admissions.” And the GOP … Continue reading →

Reading Quentin Bell’s superb biography of Virginia Woolf. She decried the literary “Underworld” whose “ambition was to be on the winning side. . . When Conrad published Victory, Virginia found it hailed by the Underworld as a masterpiece. . . But … Continue reading →

Oh, but she says she’s a Christian, so no harm, no foul, right?

Ronny and Casey have turned the Sunshine  state into the Pariah state.

I kept experiencing that kind of double internal vision as I wrote “Growing Up Basquiat” for Air Mail, inspired by fellow former City-as-School students Al Diaz and Danny Kessler reminiscing with me about our mutual friend and classmate Jean.

A friend called to remind me that epochal and timeless “Strange Fruit,” immortalized by Irish Catholic African-American Billie Holiday, was based on a poem by white Jew Abel  Meeropol.

It was only a matter of time before Trump tried to deflect from his Adderall addiction by accusing-Biden-in-a-mirror of being  coked up.

His two gubernatorial wins were powered by massive voter disenfranchisement.

Steve Willis and I have talked to 80 first-handers for our biography of Diana Sands! Diana herself would be 89 in August, and it’s good to be reminded of how cogent witnesses of 80 plus can be. And how important … Continue reading →