November 21, 2024

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix This quote from Jimi Hendrix , which I read after listening to bombs dropping and planes crashing in Jimi’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is appropriate as the U.S. inches close to triggering a global nuclear apocalypse….

March 21, 2024

[Post-dated addition: This blog post was written before thousands of brave and conscientious students of the United States (including students from Columbia, where I did my MFA (I have written about that experience in my book The Killing of an Author), community leaders and activists around the world, and many conscientious Jews including the astonishingly…

November 12, 2020

Such a day or two or three or four, days stretched to breaking point! The agonizingly protracted election of Biden to the presidency of the United States, and the ecstatic booting out of Donald Trump, is going to take all of 73 days (maybe 74, to pick up his hairpiece and his MAGA hat, which…