I’ve never received so many requests to write about a topic as this: The current “horrifying” campus protests in comparison to our “righteous” protests of the ’60s. I did survive Civil Rights […]
Out of My Mind: Protests in the 60s & Today
Out of My Mind: Free Speech and the First Amendment: Our Most Misunderstood Amendment
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of […]
Out of My Mind: The War with Iran Turns Hot
Almost every war begins with a tragic series of miscalculations. Nations get fooled into not understanding the gravity of their actions, and sometimes, the whole world pays the price. Today, three hours […]
Out of My Mind: Human Evolution: Batteries Not Included
Robots will not replace me! The fear that we’re building our replacements is unfounded. We are building our replacement parts. Robots aren’t coming to get me. I’m absorbing them into my body. […]
Out of My Mind: We Are at War: Iran & the Three H Axis of Resistance
We are at war with Iran. Unlike the “Phoney War,” from 1939 to 1940 between England and Germany, when war was declared but not fully engaged, today we no longer declare war […]
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Out of My Mind: Year End Column (Revised): Maybe it’s Not So Bad
I wrote a perfectly good year-end column that reviewed the big stories, mostly about our human foibles and follies, e.g., political corruption, homophobia, racism, abortion, and our horrible dehumanizing and demonizing of […]
Out of My Mind: If I Were a Palestinian Longing for Peace
I’m a Jewish-American Zionist and support the right of Israel to continue to exist as a Jewish state. However, as an exercise in empathy, I’m moved to wonder what I’d think and […]
Out of My Mind: The New Old Anti-Semitism
I first encountered anti-Semitism in 1950 while watching our tiny new TV. I saw bodies piled up and bulldozers pushing them into open graves. I saw barely living skeleton people in striped […]
Out of My Mind: Tears of Futility
Prologue: I was walking in the countryside in Tunisia in 1967 and encountered a German cemetery from WWII. Family members had clearly visited and put pictures of these forever young men on […]
