Op-Ed
Radio Free New Hampshire: The Great Entertainer
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Before this last election I tuned into Fox News one afternoon to watch one of Trump’s televised rallies.
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Before this last election I tuned into Fox News one afternoon to watch one of Trump’s televised rallies.
Tom Wolfe published “Radical Chic” in 1970, telling how musician Leonard Bernstein gave a fundraiser for the Black Panthers at his penthouse in Manhattan.
Trump gained no mandate. Neither he nor his supporters should think he did.Trump gained no mandate. Neither he nor his supporters should think he did.
It’s the sixties as seen through a cartoon lens; it’s the sixties as absorbed by a spoiled rich kid who was not really paying attention.
The reaction to Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been profoundly disturbing to many in the Jewish community, myself included.
Autumn brings a sweet mix of melancholy and genuine new beginnings.
John Erlichman would know. He was one of those tragic figures from the Watergate scandal, a decent enough man with liberal tendencies who committed crimes while serving as an assistant to President Nixon.
Robin Hood made his depredations against the usurper Prince John, not against his monarch, Richard the Lion-Hearted. Pretty Boy Floyd robbed the same banks that were taking the homes of poor farmers.
The floppy hair, the red tie, the over-sized suit. (Trump) has become an American icon, as instantly recognizable, as two-dimensional, and as silly as Mickey Mouse.