July 06, 2017
T r u m p ’ s L i e s
Dear Friends, This is sufficiently absurd that we should really focus on the accomplishments and failures of this chap and disregard his insanity. It feeds his ego, the endless watching…
Posts filed under New York Times
June 19, 2017
Stonewall Inn Project to Preserve Stories Behind a Gay Rights Monument
Dear Friends, A short while ago we sent in our daily email a short mention of Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt and an art work of his. I thought this New York Times…
April 04, 2017
The Los Angeles Times, Trump’s Authoritarian Vision
Part III By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD APRIL 4, 2017 Standing before the cheering throngs at the Republican National Convention last summer, Donald Trump bemoaned how special interests had rigged the…
February 10, 2017
?WHY NOW? NOT IN TIME?
New York Times By Paul Krugman Feb. 10, 2017 What will you do when terrorists attack, or U.S. friction with some foreign power turns into a military confrontation? I don’t mean…
February 08, 2017
NYT: American Universities Must Take a Stand
By Leon Botstein Feb. 8, 2017 Not since the era of witch hunts and “red baiting” has the American university faced so great a threat from government. How is the…
December 08, 2016
NYT: Trump’s Likely Labor Pick, Andrew Puzder, Is Critic of Minimum Wage Increases
By Noam Scheiber and Maggie Haberman Dec. 8, 2016 President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that operates the fast food…
December 05, 2016
NYT: I am a dangerous professor
by George Yancy Nov. 30, 2016 Those familiar with George Orwell’s “1984” will recall that “Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.” I recently…
