The administration might not be able to ban birth tourism, but that doesn’t mean it’s powerless against it. For example, there’s this: The State Department’s new policy uses powers under the Immigration and Nationality Act to yank visas from those … Continue reading →
Leonard Cohen, circa 1988: And then there’s Sunday’s election in Berlin in which the Left Party got a plurality of the votes. The party’s campaign modeled itself after that of New York’s Mayor Mamdani. Fancy that [emphasis mine]: In Sunday’s … Continue reading →
They just want Trump gone, gone, gone. In a way, it’s understandable. It must seem like forever to them that he’s been in office. Not only does he tweak and poke and tease them, but he was first elected ten … Continue reading →
There’s a great deal of commentary around the blogosphere on this article by Nikole Hannah-Jones in The New York Times Magazine. You remember NHJ, don’t you? She was the mind behind the 1619 Project, the duplicitous Times rewriting of the … Continue reading →
I am so grateful for your many heartfelt and touching condolences. Thinking about the question of when to resume writing the blog, I think it’s a good idea for me to just plunge in – maybe not at quite the … Continue reading →
Spring and Fall – to a young child By Gerard Manley Hopkins Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older … Continue reading →
… to resume posting either Monday night or some time on Tuesday. Thank you for your beautiful condolences.
Continue reading →He was a presence in my life for nearly sixty years – first as young boyfriend, then as husband, then as ex-husband. But always, always, a central figure. And how he is gone. He had some health problems, to be … Continue reading →
I’d rather the world not be destroyed by AI, so I’m heartened by this. An excerpt: Here are the main counterarguments: * Intelligence does not imply agency: A system can be extraordinarily capable at prediction, theorem proving, engineering, programming, etc. … Continue reading →