Here are the Blogs in the Richard Kostelanetz category.
Monday, 21 August 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Piecing together bits drawn from various sources, I gather that some white supremacist group got a permit to stage a demonstration. Once this was granted, the remnant of Black Lives Matter decided, along with allied gangs, to mobilize a counter demonstration. This setup ...Read More...
Posted on 08/21/2017 10:39 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Friday, 4 August 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
It would create a two-tier system where the privileged class could get different, reputably better doctors who would accept higher payments.
Where "higher payments" made illegal, because, say, "un-American," as indeed a two-tier system would be, the result would be a ...Read More...
Posted on 08/04/2017 9:52 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Wednesday, 5 July 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Doubly pained I am to see Hillary Clinton’s supporters flailing around to uncover one or another discreditable reason for her losing the last presidential election, because most of them are patently fictitious. For instance, while some Russians might have made devious moves ...Read More...
Posted on 07/05/2017 5:22 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Saturday, 24 June 2017
by Richard Kostelanetz
Local radio told me today that the Washington Post, increasingly more dubious in its anti-Trump hysteria, reports that Obama last summer told Trump to tell Putin to stop interfering in the forthcoming election. The glib conclusion is that Trump must have acknowledged, ...Read More...
Posted on 06/24/2017 6:59 PM by Richard Kostelanetz
Thursday, 22 June 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Antifa in Berlin
Horrifying it is to hear protestors in America identify Trump as “fascist,” since in 1932 Germany the mob in the streets were Nazis, who having failed in the free election, wanted to overthrow the legitimate government. To placate these mobs, duly elected ...Read More...
Posted on 06/22/2017 5:17 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
So hysterically anti-Trump has not only the NPR network but my local station become that, after a few minutes, I turn away. Whatever “news” can be interpreted to indicate Trump’s incompetence or failure is featured, no matter how dubious the “explanation.” I’m waiting for ...Read More...
Posted on 06/21/2017 7:41 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
by Richard Kostelanetz
One of the unfortunate truths to emerge in the wake of the recent presidential election is that “intellectuals” who take pride in understanding people and cultures not their own can’t understand how any American voted for Donald Trump. Not a clue. The truth is that their smug ...Read More...
Posted on 06/20/2017 4:17 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Monday, 19 June 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Does anyone really believe that Putin, et al, preferred Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton?
They’d done biz with her while Trump seemed not only unfamiliar but unpredictable, as indeed he’s been. They’d learned that her judgments could be purchased.
I’d sooner accept ...Read More...
Posted on 06/19/2017 10:26 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Monday, 19 June 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
James Hodgkinson
Since the allegiances of the man who attempted to shoot Rep. Steve Scalese are known, why don’t anti-gun fanatics advocate disarming all supporters in America of Bernie Sanders. No one doubts who the shooter was, where he’d been, or what he did.
If ...Read More...
Posted on 06/19/2017 7:17 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Thursday, 6 April 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Name an undergraduate alumnus who headed a university equal to Brown for a decade?
Another who currently hosts a nationally syndicated talk show?
Another who heads a major federal entity?
A major early influence on feminist literary criticism not only for her writings ...Read More...
Posted on 04/06/2017 10:57 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Thursday, 30 March 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Especially in the north of Israel the traveler can visually identify the border by land that is cultivated for agriculture. On the other side of the border, whether in Syria or Jordan, land with the same qualities is barren, simply because the people residing there can’t ...Read More...
Posted on 03/30/2017 6:57 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

by Richard Kostelanetz
Having received from the National Endowment for the Arts the whopping sum of ten (yes, ten) individual grants between 1976 and 1991, I feel a certain obligation to give back, as we say. If we accept the principle that cultural funding should make happen what would not otherwise ...Read More...
Posted on 01/25/2017 12:15 PM by Richard Kostelanetz
Sunday, 27 November 2016

by Richard Kostelanetz
Rarely is a photograph worth a thousand words, but one that knocked me out several years ago showed Fidel Castro, visibly aged, clutching a copy of a new book in English by none other than Alan Greenspan.
Note that in his hands is AG, not Martha Stewart, Carl Woodward, ...Read More...
Posted on 11/27/2016 1:53 PM by Richard Kostelanetz
Monday, 25 May 2015
How this became such a hot issue mystifies straight me, given all the larger problems plaguing us. As I first read about it in a neo-conservatives’ magazine, I thought it might have been invented by them--that they exploited some obscure advocate into order to embarrass liberals and Democrats whom the ...Read More...
Posted on 05/25/2015 4:58 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
Saturday, 11 April 2015
For a while now, I’ve been receiving their daily quintuple aggregates from many sources without thinking much about them. The most peculiar bits approvingly report protests within Israel or anti-Israel protests on behalf of Palestinians in Western Europe without noticing that such anti-government protests ...Read More...
Posted on 04/11/2015 9:17 AM by Richard Kostelanetz
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