In the United States, the “New Left” is loosely associated with liberal, radical, Marxist political movements during the 1960s, primarily among college students. New Left is a broad range of left-wing activist movements and intellectual currents that arose...
Decades keep turning into shades of yesterday. You reach out for what is worth saving. There’s got to be a better way. Pieces of what could have been are slipping into darkness. The door you can not find is open wide, frozen in your mind. Things are weirder than...
Today, you can stream escapism on your television set or deal with the tragedy of reality. The Persians are coming back with a vengeance this time. In this day and age, you can’t kill them all to get the right ones. Sorting them out isn’t easy. Plus, we...
Academics only tell you what they think you should know. Laudatory dreams lie fragmented in your mind; you can piece them together over time if you have the mind. When a storm ends, another begins, and so it goes. Political discourse has little use for morality....
1967: The Six-Day War grew out of the Suez Canal conflict. ISRAEL GAINED A LOT OF LAND. (ABOUT 20% OF THE ORIGINAL PROMISE FROM GOD). Kings David and Soloman owned about 2/3rds of the Promised Land; it eventually fell to zero. In 1948, the Jews got 10% or 15% of the...
TAKING THE LONG WAY HOME. The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, announced Britain’s promise of a national home for the Jewish people—Palestine had been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. This appeased the Zionist movement, which...
