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Disgraced, disbarred attorney  Roy Cohn taught Trump a few rhetorical comebacks and a few strategic plays, and since then he’s just coasted. Projection is, of course, the principal Trumpian play. Thus his grotesque blubbering–w/o a speck of evidence, naturally– to … Continue reading →

ever take responsibility for anything? Joe Biden gave Anita Hill the standard non-apology apology: he’s sorry for what happened to her (displaced passive tense hurrah!). Not he is sorry for how he behaved, what he did to her, how lamentably … Continue reading →

Beloved reader: You’ve been very patient. Tentatively, “A Long Time Ago in Milan,” my downloadable-to-Kindle monograph on Benedetta Barzini, will be available via Amazon on May 1.

What were Obama and the Dems thinking when they allowed Mitch McConnell to mau-mau democracy and steal the Supreme Court? Trump believes that he’s got the Supreme Court in the bag, and given the utterly corrupt, elitist, anti-democracy majority now … Continue reading →

Jared Kushner got into Harvard on a special Affirmative Action program designed for the progeny of the ultra-wealthy–and his father only had to pay 2.5 million to get his distinctly mediocre son into the Yard. Needless to say, Jared couldn’t … Continue reading →

My father’s cousin Connie works herself to the bone  every year to host a seder. She likes it if you tell her she’s thin enough to put on pointe shoes. You see, she took ballet passionately as a girl until she … Continue reading →

It is up to Lachlan Murdoch to off-load, shut down, or reform Fox “News” and the New York Post. Until he does, law suits and economic boycotts are the way to combat these two criminal, seditious organizations.

And so all he and his flacks can do is scream the same lies more and more defiantly and vociferously.

Laura Jacobs and I went to hear La Clemenza di Tito at the Met earlier this week. It was actually my second visit this season; I really wanted to go because it’s so rarely performed. I’d last heard it at … Continue reading →

The. Dems need to start legal action against Trump, Fox “News,” and fish wrap-before-it’s-left-the-news stand N.Y. Post. They are guilty of defamation and incitement to violence.