Category: Reflections

Now that it is complete, the life of Roger “Syd” Barrett can stand as rebuttal to the punk- rock cliche that “it’s better to bum …

Karl Marx, building on Hegel, noted that history repeats itself first as tragedy, and then as farce. Had he foreseen the War Against Pot, perhaps …

According to a 1997 biography, “Tiger” (written byJohn Strege, a sportswriter at my paper), Tiger Woods fell in love with golf at the ripe old …

It is always wise to be cautious in commenting on a trial that one has not attended from start to finish. But from everything I …

In 1990, I wanted to go from India to America for postgraduate studies. A few days before my visit to the U.S. consulate in Mumbai …

Mayor Bloomberg of New York shocked many by saying that not only shouldn’t we deport 11 million illegal immigrants but we need millions more of …

While hardly anybody was paying attention, Congress voted to give itself a pay raise. Or to be more specific, voted against voting on the subject …

This unbelievable paragraph appeared in the New York Times, online: “With his bushy beard and his booming anti-American rhetoric, Mr. Castro, who turns 80 next …

I am looking at a news article entitled, “Killer Asteroid Headed Towards Earth.” This is an opportunity to see what “science” reporting is like today. …

Students went into protest mode at The New School in New York City when the university’s president, Bob Kerrey, former governor of Nebraska and a …