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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 →

History prof Eric Weitz writes at CommonDreams: “Weimar Germany did not collapse under the weight of its various crises. It was actively destroyed by a conservative elite – noble landowners, high-level state officials, businessmen, army officers – that chose to … Continue reading →

the Democrats have any political chops they can muster up–a big “if” if ever there was one–they will hang around the neck of the GOP its seditious and unconstitutional collusion re: the Supreme Court nominee. Democrats-in-name-only take a gander at … Continue reading →

In our society, you’re no longer an elitist if you’re a billionaire demanding cuts to the $15,000 per year Social Security benefits of retired wait staff– No, what now generally gets you called an elitist is having cultural interests that … Continue reading →

Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone writes about the ludicrous sight of the same GOP shills and pols who sold GW Bush’s ignorance and incompetence to the public as ASSETS now suddenly foaming with outrage over Trump. Bush led to Trump–Taibbi … Continue reading →

As in “Take a look.” Oxford’s put up a slideshow on Osipenko.

Marvin handed me an advance copy of the new, Spring 2016 Ballet Review, and man, is it a doozie! If this doesn’t have something to satisfy every kinetic palate, I don’t know what could.