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The privileging of ignorance in this country certainly extends up to the editorial boards of major newspapers. Why are we not surprised that it was the Daily News’ editorial board, not Sanders, who didn’t know what the F what they … Continue reading →

about the way that “mainstream” Western “journalism” keeps juggling those double standards as corruption looms large in the Panama papers. At Consortium News, he decries the way that the media industry: “no longer even tries to apply common standards to … Continue reading →

is the attempt by right-wing plutocrats to destroy America’s system of free public education, the same way that the real crisis in Social Security is the right wing’s attempt to end it. Diane Ravitch.net is a great place to go … Continue reading →

Th Tea Party: people working their tails off, for free, to elect the candidates who will do them the most harm.

“beneficial” humility. Beneficial to the artist, to the art form, to the audience. It doesn’t mean that Flagstad didn’t have a healthy sense of her own worth, but that she understood the enormity of the task of reaching perfection in … Continue reading →

Returning to the Met as Isolde in 1951 after a ten-year-absence, Kirsten Flagstad received 19 curtain calls after act 1. If she didn’t know how to sing Isolde, who did? Yet when Flagstad sang Isolde as a guest in France … Continue reading →

They’re great, but — If I had to do it all over again, I might have pursued a graduate degree in classics, but when I look at the, so to speak, degree to which the academy has aggressively pursued a … Continue reading →

They don’t croak. I learned this with my own ears last weekend when I went on a tour of vernal pools in the woods at county-owned Muscoot Farm in Northern Westchester. Frog mamitchkas will schlep almost a mile to get … Continue reading →

Why are the young flocking to Sanders? It might just be that they’d like a shot at a future! Les Leopold at Alternet spells it out.

(One of them.) We can be brilliant about individual areas of inquiry and investigation, but we are so blinkered when it comes to common sense. Cosseted in her fever dream of coronation, Hillary Clinton thought she’d cruise to primary victory … Continue reading →