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America’s Wonderful Tolerance: The 2004 Elections
The [American] public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius “Oscar Wilde We are a tolerant nation. Last November we forgot a mounting deficit, an absurd war (no WMD’s or...
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Rethinking a Party
Le Figaro stated that this year’s presidential elections would lead the Democrats to “an examination of conscience.” The French daily quoted party insiders who see the future of the Party in the hands...
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A Geography Lesson for Dick Cheney
After a speech in Dallas, a journalist inquired into Dick Cheney’s views on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His response: “the people of Perú deserve better… leadership.” The country begs to...
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I Hear America Singing
Tuesday’s victory for Barack Obama proved that poetry and justice are still vibrant possibilities. I hear America singing. Whitman, Thoreau, Martin Luther King still ring with authenticity. Could...
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Justice Has Been Done
President Obama announces the news of Bin Laden's death “To win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a law professor standing at a lectern.” Sarah Palin, 2008 The bully who promised to “smoke...
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‘Panama Papers:” Doomed to Oblivion? A History
Public memory is short, so is media editorial attention. With the release of the “Panama Papers,” Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned. In a world of impunity for the...
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Freeports and secret accounts in the art world
Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi painted for Louis XII of France between 1506-13, terribly restored and sold to Dmitry Rybolovlev by Yves Bouvier. A Nazi-looted Modigliani was seized from the Geneva Freeport...
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