No matter how this goes, the alleged behavior in question is a big, ugly piece of our American legacy, which is in the midst of a tectonic shift that could end up going a lot of ways, not all of them good. A few months before he died my father confessed to me, as an aside to his telling of his life story for a…

No matter how this goes, the alleged behavior in question is a big, ugly piece of our American legacy, which is in the midst of a tectonic shift that could end up going a lot of ways, not all of them good. A few months before he died my father confessed to me, as an aside to his telling of his life story for a…

Boston has no more or less of a problem with Mr. Che’s chosen subject of white-on-black racism than most other large, similarly vibrant American cities. Washington, Philly, Cleveland and Chicago spring to mind. Racism in general continues to plague this nation and the world at large. And when all is said and done,…

This is a circus sideshow. As another inevitable 9/11 rears its scary head, there’s a blustering autocrat in the White House, his twitchy hand only inches from the nuclear football. Since he’s an uncontrollable ass, he’s got an entire embedded plutocracy plotting against him, while another even more greedy and…

Rambling, yes, but Louis CK may be right. Donald Trump has captured the national mood, which is apparently that of a shell-shocked, pissed-off blowhard who is tired of his manhood being questioned by his nagging wife. He’s the latest and most opportunistic symptom of this zeitgeist, and the tip of a big, ugly iceberg…