Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Can it be overcome after today’s mass shootings? And if Moscow Mitch thinks that standing on a podium and waving a gun at the audience is going to get him re-elected, he’s got another thing coming. He must be defeated, … Continue reading →

It’s interesting: Tchernichova, who in the Soviet Union had to deal with the most onerous aspects of what state arts funding could connote: constant interference and censorship from the state, nevertheless told me that dealing with private ballet funders in … Continue reading →

And if even a whiff of reality somehow makes it on to Fox “News,” then he freaks out.

Every time Kellyanne Conway or any other member of the Trump crime syndicate starts touting deregulation as a positive achievement, the Democrats have to come forward and explain how much risk to Americans’ health and economic security each piece of … Continue reading →

Sarah Jones in New York Magazine: “It is likely not coincidental that the small government the Kochs desire would leave artists and scientists at the mercy of billionaires’ largesse. It’s as if he and his brother wanted to pitch us … Continue reading →

For Graydon Carter’s new Air Mail, I write about “French Fashion, Women, and the First World War,” the upcoming exhibition at the Bard Design Center.

I’m waiting for the fulsome eulogies of David Koch from our ballet companies, which were among the cultural institutions Koch used as fig leaves for his apocalyptic greed and fanatical insistence that humans’ future should be sacrificed to it. What … Continue reading →

Not a word from her or her GOP colleagues about the vile smears pouring out of Toxic Trump. The only time Liz addresses anti-Semitism is when she uses trumped-up accusations to smear the Democrats.

He abuses the filibuster and the rights of the minority in order to throw sand into the gears of the legislative/judicial process. When he’s the Majority Leader, he abuses his leadership to bring Congress’s legislative apparatus to a standstill while … Continue reading →

about “the Squad” being the face of the Democratic Party (if only), Dem leaders need to make it clear that unlike the GOP, which worships at the feet of aspiring-dictator Trump, the Dem caucus has many faces and many ideological … Continue reading →