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You’ve already heard, of course, that fewer people are reading anything anymore. And when they do, they want it to be short, if not shorter, or the very shortest it could possibly be. There&#…

Just Fix It and Print It, A.I. (Oh, and Make me World-Famous While You’re at It) In her May 17, 2026, New York Times opinion piece “What A.I. Kant Do,” Maureen Dowd spotlighted so…

Just Fix It and Print It, A.I. (Oh, and Make me World-Famous While You’re at It) In her May 17, 2026, New York Times opinion piece “What A.I. Kant Do,” Maureen Dowd spotlighted so…

Gen. George Washington, Spymaster George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger is an engaging, fast-paced account of the unsung h…

The Rich, the Very Rich, and the Ultra-Rich Are Draining Our Pockets While Weighting Us Down Recently, I came across some prescient and eye-opening comments in the November 2025 issue of The New Re…

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For decade after decade, China and Russia have thrown existential challenges at the United States on a variety of military, economic, and diplomatic fronts. Yet, the two nations currently are not our …

When future U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich faced being drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968, an Army recruiter tried desperately to add one inch to his height. The recruiter wanted Reich to …

Book Review: "Fighting America's War on Science and Scientists" in August 2025 print edition of The Progressive Populist. Reviewed bBook is: "The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science" by Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD,

A Trump executive order cutting funding for a small, little-known federal agency has had widespread and troubling results.

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New memoir by Olin Fregia

In this Washington Post "Today's Opinion" column by Jasmine M. Green, one of my senryū poems is posted at the bottom: Plus! A Friday bye-ku (Fri-ku!) from reader Si Dunn: Give me liberty, give me debt, or refund my taxes with fresh eggs.

Plus! A Friday bye-ku (Fri-ku!) from reader Si D.: Flag up or half-mast Matters not to leaders passed Just wind-blown egos ***

After years of reviewing new books for several publications, I decided I needed a break from squinting at PDF files and highlighting quotable sentences in loosely bound ARCs (advance readers’…

New biography from Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss