Telling the Whole Story

The election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York is a giant step for South Asians and Muslims in America.  It is also a victory for Socialism, that failed economic system that has seduced generations of dreamers since Karl Marx. The promise of Socialism is to...

Proven leader

Mineola, L.I.: Unless Andrew Cuomo stages a Trumanesque comeback on Nov. 4, Mamdani is poised to become Gotham’s 111th mayor.  In addition to hogtying the NYPD and eviscerating the private sector, the neophyte assemblyman will fan the flames of antisemitism with...

Cultural Collapse

There was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the various subcultures in the U.S. affect economic success. Maybe there’s nothing new here that common sense doesn’t reveal every day.  The bulk of the references in the article were to Thomas...

ITALIANS NOT SO BLACK-AND-WHITE 

On Friday, October 24th, in an event sponsored by Cinema/Chicago in conjunction with the Chicago International Film Festival, director Spike Lee was interviewed by Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, film professor at the University of Chicago and host of “Silent Cinema...

The Faces of Reality

The mean-looking guy in front is Emperor Caracalla Among the traits we inherited from our Roman ancestors was a grasp of reality.  It’s not always pretty but it has made us a very pragmatic people. We don’t often mince words or suffer fools.  It may be...

What Kind of Fools?

Like many Americans I was addicted to the 1959 series The Untouchables, aka “cops & wops” which ran to 1963.  And like a tag team bout, that series spawned a nationally televised reality show in 1964 with mobster Joe Valachi testifying before a Senate committee on...