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I don’t want to spend much time discussing the opposition to the building of the Park51 Project, a $100 million mosque and cultural center two blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, as such a response to an assault on the First Amendment to the US Constitution [...]

So that’s it, I’ll be out of touch until I tire of the pre-21st century isolation, and head into town for un caffé (o due), some dolci and somewhere with internet access. I’m away in Italy –- a remote location in Puglia the first week, a rooftop apartment in Napoli the second — so contact [...]

So I hope I left enough food in the cupboards and the fridge. And don’t forget to water the plants, please. I certainly left enough reading material. If you missed any of it, there’s the latest in the case of Omar Khadr, the “child soldier” that Obama, of all people, wants to try for invented [...]

I’m cross-posting an article about Noam Chomsky by Chris Hedges, originally published on Truthdig, because I was struck by the power of his statement, “I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” referring to the current state of politics in the US, and his warning, “It is very similar to late Weimar Germany,” [...]

I developed a lifelong opposition to war at the age of ten, when “The World At War” was broadcast by ITV, and today’s anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has brought those feelings back. To mark this most distressing of anniversaries, I’m posting a commentary from the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture,” plus a few [...]