My wife, Marina, has returned from a two and a half week to Moscow to visit her 93 year old mother.  She almost got bumped from her Turkish...

 One of the greatest musical performances I ever saw live was in Spring 1966, sorry have not tracked down exact date, in the University of W...

 Thomas Schelling got his Nobel Prize in economics for saving the world from global thermonuclear war in the 20th century, when many thought...

In his 1965 farewell lecture at Brandeis University, Herbert Marcuse read a long passage from the Grundrisse's " fragment on machin...

 My late mother seriously admired the now late Queen Elizabeth II. Not only was she a conservative Anglophiliac with overwhelming British an...

 It keeps looking like it might, but then ne obstacles seem to appear. President Biden promised to undo what I have long argued was the wors...

 Mikhail Sergeivich Gorbachev died on the same day as our daughter Sasha's 33rd birthday. Sasha herself noted that if it were not for hi...

 Probably not, but it also will probably not increase it either. This is the judgment of the Congressional Budget Office and also the Penn W...

 Recently I have seen claims made on some blogs that those who support the invasion of Ukraine by Russia under orders of its president, V.V....

 This is the first English language report of this, as near as I can tell after some serious googling, but it is all over a lot of pretty se...

 This is a bit of travelogue, as I mentioned previously I am on the road now at south end of Lake Tahoe on the Nevada side for the annual co...

 I wish to present a view of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan that is different from what I have seen from others. Most commentary I have ...

 Based on just announced preliminary results, it looks like the US will have experiences negative GDP growth for the first two quarters of 2...

 Finally we have something sort of hopeful happen in the war in Ukraine that might help alleviate problems it has generated for much of the ...

 I have just read an obituary in today's Washington Post of Pat Michaels, who died a week ago of unreported causes at age 72. He was lon...