Tomorrow will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It had great significance for me, having lived east of it for two and a half years. Also, as a recently-hired travel editor, I knew the thrill of a suddenly opened up world.
It’s disheartening to imagine any American watching Trump’s rude, belligerent, vocabulary-challenged press conference yesterday and thinking, ‘Yes, that’s my president.’
Reading of the president's latest predicament I am reminded of the old saying (often attributed to Einstein): "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
We have reached a point at which patriotic Americans, with only the best interests of their country at heart, are fervently hoping for a recession.
I try to watch the debates as I do baseball - while reading a book - but whenever there's cheering there's never a replay.
My concern about socialism in the U.S. (having lived for two years in the Soviet Bloc) is: Will it come with socialist realism?