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Together at the architecturally spectacular David H. Koch center at New York-Presbyterian on York Avenue.

Back in May, I was treated to a Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne. Uncharacteristically, the weather was perfect, such that I was forced to purchase a Panama hat at the concession. I confess I drank just a bit too much champagne before … Continue reading →

Jane Eyre: “Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”

Dilip Hiro at Tom Dispatch on how Trump has turned the world against us.

“I’ve had more power over an audience with a silence,” Mary Garden writes in her 1951 memoirs, “than I ever had with a note. . . That’s where I would look if I went into an opera house hunting for a … Continue reading →

Their insistence that Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings go ahead despite evidence of Trump’s criminality is their rear-guard attempt to ensure legal immunity for Trump. Trump will be placed above the law.

who accepts campaign contributions from developers must automatically be disqualified from running. That has to be the new rule.

that useful idiot Sen. Collins skipped out of her meeting aflutter with excitement that Brett Kavanaugh had assured her that abortion rights were settled law — but to Sen. Schumer Kavanaugh refused to say anything at all on the subject? … Continue reading →

Last year, a vast coalition of civic and state politcos requested expansion of the Madison Square Park North historic district. Urban devastation going on in its surrounding blocks is carrying away one unprotected historic building after another. Then-LPC chair Scrinivasan … Continue reading →

Medicare For All = a savings of  $2 trillion over a 10-year period. So says even a Koch-funded think thank. But, as Ryan Cooper writes at The Week, “so far The Washington Post, The Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and CNN have absolutely beclowned themselves trying to … Continue reading →