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Publisher’s Note Anthony Livingston Hall is easily one of the most prolific thinkers of our times. What’s more, his views defy conventional wisdom. The Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and US presidential election figure most prominently in this volume. But Hall also comments on the other global events of 2020. Among his many controversial… Read more.
Episode 29: There’s Police Brutality but also Resisting Arrest Listen.
Here is the forlorn note I sounded at the beginning of “Friday Will Effectively Mark The End of America’s 20-Year War in Afghanistan,” January 11, 2021: _________ I have been pleading for nearly 15 years for the United States to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. Because it has been patently clear for at least that… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote months ago in “Covid Vaccine: Fear Not Blacks, a Black Woman Developed It,” December 12, 2020: ________ The legacy of racism in America manifests in many cruel ways. And sometimes the cruelty is replete with irony. Case in point is the racist way the US government treated Blacks… Read more.
Episode 28: Men’s Game Is Vertical; Women’s Is Horizontal. Which Do You Think is Fore Fun? Listen.
I am an ardent anti-monarchist. But the purportedly chauvinistic Philip put a public face on feminism long before its modern wave became a movement. I eulogize him for doing so with dignity and inimitable charm. Indeed, I saw no contradiction in hailing Philip and Elizabeth II on the occasion of their diamond wedding anniversary. I… Read more.
I occasionally have cause to wonder if my persuasiveness and clairvoyance are not greater than I realize. Case in point, Rupert Murdoch is a naturalized American. But I’ve argued for years that he seems more hell-bent on doing everything to destroy this country from the inside than Vladimir Putin is on doing so from the… Read more.
Have you been keeping track of the prosecutors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who kneed George Floyd to death so infamously? You’d be forgiven the impression that they’re trying to emulate the “Dream Team” who defended O.J. Simpson … so infamously. I will stipulate that each prosecutor is performing well… Read more.
Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 women’s and men’s basketball tournaments as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat” inherent in watching low-seeded teams (aka Cinderellas) upset top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Unfortunately, these tournaments rarely live up to the hype, respectively. Sure… Read more.
I am loath to abuse my standing as the deprogrammed son of an evangelical preacher man. But I am moved by the Holy Spirit (heehee) to at least acknowledge this seminal religious trend (and this is Holy Week after all): Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for… Read more.
