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The Trump administration is depraved from stem to stern. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Trump’s bombimg Syria is “after-dinner entertainment.” And no, that’s not funny.

Did you see him with John Dickerson this am?

In The New York Times, Roslyn Sulcas wrote recently that “gloom pervaded” the ballet world of the 1980s and 1990s, gloom purportedly dispelled by the three choreographers whom she interviews in a piece entitled “Three Kings of Ballet Choreography.” That … Continue reading →

I just started reading The Education of Henry Adams. No sooner was I into chapter 1 than Adams was reminding me that “the practical value of the universe has never been stated in dollars.”

The Barker-in-Chief forecasts confrontation ahead with North Korea. Sealing the deal, however, will undoubtedly depend on Trump’s approval ratings at home.

One reason the people around Trump are so shady–apart from the curtain of shade he casts–is that Trump only respects people who game the system. That’s what a “winner” does, right? And in addition, Trump’s cabal of con men and … Continue reading →

Congressman Jamie Raskin passionately defends artistic expression in the face of the House  GOP’s censorship of a student canvas.

But it may not even be non-profit. Once again, the Trump, Inc. shingle engulfs all concepts and norms of governmental propriety. Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo writes: “As is the case on many other fronts, Trump and his family ran the … Continue reading →

when it comes to Ballet Review, it’s all good. Just as you’re taking in the riches of the last issue, we come out with a great new one! In the current, Spring 2017 issue, BR’s international perspective shames everything that’s … Continue reading →

In print on Brad Friedman’s blog and over the audio waves on Friedman’s BradCast, Theodore A. Postol, MIT Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and National Security Policy pokes holes in official U.S. and the “mainstream” media’s categorical certainty on the … Continue reading →