I am looking forward with no small amount of apprehension to the upcoming 2024 Chicago National Democratic Convention. Having filmed the events in Grant and Lincoln Parks in Chicago during the ...
Mark Twain famously wrote that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. When he wrote that, he probably wasn’t thinking in terms of a year or two. And yet here we are: another aging ...
"Violent solution follows failure of negotiations." So read the headline in Columbia University’s student newspaper, the Spectator – not on April 30, 2024, but rather April 30, 1968. As a student at ...
Economists like to remind us there is no such thing as a free lunch. In investment parlance, that just means all investments carry risk—even cash. And the big risk with cash is reinvestment risk. That ...
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “So it goes.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The writing has been on the wall for over a decade, defiantly staring us ...
Sen. Chuck Schumer has published a book called “Antisemitism in America: A Warning.” This might be a good book for every school library, except for some offensive words which are clearly spelled out ...
At times, it’s cold comfort to know history. Mark Twain said history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. We’re in one of those rhyming times, as immigrants, some who were granted asylum and ...