June 11, 2020

Where are you, Marc Chagall?

The American leviathan swimming in the turbulent economic-political waters needs a Mark Chagall of our time to artistically decipher its image. The agility of America is stunning.  At will, it can stop its enormous — the world'...

June 1, 2020

Negligent cops and thuggish protesters

By now, Memorial Day's horrific and intolerable image of a handcuffed and prostrate George Floyd with a white police officer kneeling on his neck — a racially tinged confrontation resulting in death — has been emblazoned in the memory...

November 11, 2019

Reflections on the 140th Anniversary of Three Revolutionaries

In addition to the 40th anniversary of the successful landing on December 12, 1979, of the author and his family in the New World, 2019 is also rich in other significant events.  In particular, this year marks the 140th anniversary of the b...