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You’d be hard-pressed to find a Black commentator who criticized late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms of the early 2000s more than I did. However, the backlash from other Black commentators was such that, if I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought I was betraying my race. Meanwhile, it was plain for all to… Read more.
Last year, Instagram executives flirted with the idea of weaning narcissistic users off addiction to likes. They failed – as I duly predicted they would in “Testing Social Networks Without ‘Likes’ … Because a ‘Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste’,” September 26, 2019: The CEO of every social network already knows that taking away… Read more.
Arguably, protests in Russia are like snowballs in Hell. This is why I’ve written so many commentaries over the years hailing democratic rebels with a lost cause. For example, I refer you to “Putinization: President Putin Reforming Russia in His Own Image,” March 25, 2005 “Vladimir Putin Sends Political Dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky Off to the… Read more.
Cohen free to unleash on Trump Michael Cohen walked into his apartment building on the Upper East Side Friday evening to begin his home confinement term, ending a weeks-long fiasco that saw him arrested and returned to federal prison for refusing terms of his confinement. … [Judge Alvin Hellerstein] on Thursday ordered Cohen’s release from… Read more.
No, I am not an anti-vaxxer nutter. I get a flu shot every year. And I fully intend to get a Covid-19 vaccine when the FDA approves one. The problem is that immunologists have been all over TV commenting on their vaccine development like a sports analyst commenting on a friggin’ baseball game. Trust me,… Read more.
I have written many commentaries effectively ridiculing the culture at Fox News as a cross between those dramatized in The Stepford Wives and Peyton Place. Here for example is what I wrote in “Women Complain Fox News Head, Roger Ailes, Has Dick for Brains,” July 20, 2016: _________ Close friends will tell you that I… Read more.
Fatefully, here is how I was boasting about our independence just weeks ago: We are a relatively young nation of only 396,000 people. Yet not even the hegemony of the United States can chasten our national pride. (“Happy Independence Day, Bahamas!” The iPINIONS Journal, July 10, 2020) But even I never thought not just national… Read more.
I watched in shame and utter consternation last week as celebrities like Nick Cannon, Ice Cube, and Sean “P Diddy” Combs took America’s eyes off the noble prize of dismantling systemic racism. Instead they focused those eyes on the poisoned chalice of an inchoate form of Black fascism, which already makes what the Nazis propagated… Read more.
Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. … On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end… Read more.
At the end of my July 8 preview, I noted that I would be crestfallen if the first week of sales of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump did not double those of The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton. Well, I… Read more.
