Because They Can By Leonard Zwelling When bad things are happening, reasonable people seek to understand why. Today there is much to question. Why is Donald Trump, a clear racist and misogynist, still in the White House? Why will members of his own Republican Party, the party that opposed slavery, sit silently by and tolerate […]
The Chinese Dilemma Revisited By Leonard Zwelling Two articles in the July 5 issue of Science Magazine go a long way toward explaining the quandary that American academia is in with regard to the competing forces of the need for foreign graduate students, post-docs, and faculty, including people from China, and the need to secure
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Mueller’s Testimony: No One Cares By Leonard Zwelling It is now beyond apparent that the way to get the American public focused on an issue is not to have a two-year investigation of that issue followed by the publication of a thick redacted report that comes to no meaningful conclusions. Throughout the hearings on Wednesday,
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The Race For President 2020 By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-option-kills-private-insurance-11563309118?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 The Republican strategy for pursuing the re-election of Donald Trump is being formulated by Donald Trump himself. It’s pretty much the one Richard Nixon used to win in 1972. First, any real American supports Nixon. Second, a real American does not criticize the United States even
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The Re-emergence Of Racism In Politics And Academia And How It Has Been Met With Silence By Leonard Zwelling And you thought it couldn’t get any worse. Ha! Now President Trump has singled out four liberal, freshman Congresswoman of color for ridicule in his latest Tweet storm telling them to go back to the countries
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The Moon Plus Fifty Years By Leonard Zwelling It is more than likely that more people who read this blog were not alive when the moon landing occurred fifty years ago on July 20, 1969, than were. I was about to turn 21. I watched Neil Armstrong descend to the lunar surface on a small
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Fear: Trumping Stupidity As The Most Powerful Force In The Universe By Leonard Zwelling According to the Internet, Roland Barthes first said “stupidity is the most powerful force in the universe.” I must admit I had come to believe this to be the case as so much of what moves populations and the fate of
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Getting It Right The First Time: Is That Professionalism? By Leonard Zwelling There may be nothing more challenging than handling a home crisis of the infrastructure kind at a distance, but on Friday, July 5, that was my fate. I was on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico when I learned that two large problems
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Making Things Greater By Leonard Zwelling Even in Manhattan, I saw the MAGA hats starting to sprout. We must be getting close to 2020 and another election season. It also must mean that Mr. Trump’s announcement that kicked-off his re-election bid has been heard by his followers and they are breaking out the old gear.
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Yesterday By Leonard Zwelling This is not a movie review. I will not be outlining the full plot of this excellent film. I will not be talking about the performances or the actors or the director. I want to talk about two things. First, what this film is really about is what the world would
