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Trump’s incontinent insanity is quickly approaching Roman Emperor caliber.

It is they who are disrespecting the flag every day of their lives, professing loyalty to a piece of cloth while destroying every constitutional ideal and protection, every civil right ever symbolized by that flag, turning the United States into … Continue reading →

D’Artagnan at Daily Kos responds to the Environmental Degradation Agency’s intent to repeal Obama’s Clear Air Act, describing the way that Trump’s administration “has set its sights on destroying the future of the country and condemning the entire planet to … Continue reading →

The definitive definition, from my father’s new autobiography: “If somebody who was there at the time and, more important, was actually a participant in an event that involved or significantly affected you, and if you were absent, or even if … Continue reading →

Pia Catton, who was once my editor at The New York Sun, interviewed me for Dance.com about the Bolshoi’s Le Corsaire, which will be transmitted live to theaters here October 22.

Thomas Frank writes in The Guardian: “It sometimes seems like  the history of the populist right – with its calls to ‘organize discontent’ and its endless war against ‘the establishment’ and the ‘elites’ – is nothing but a history of … Continue reading →

He’ll launch wars against Iran and North Korea to shied himself from RussiaGate. The results will be catastrophic. And if the Dems do not mobilize effectively against him, they are finished.

In Puerto Rico he seemed to be suffering nearly a full-scale psychic break. Is he on drugs? and/or is his toxic megalomania now exacerbated by dementia?

At the beginning of act two of Tristan und Isolde, Isolde’s handmaiden Brangaene indeed now wrings her hands with regret that she’d substituted love potion for death potion. Isolde silences her in some of Wagner’s most sublime music, insisting that it … Continue reading →

“The moment was as remarkable as it was unprecedented,” notes The Washington Post.