I turn 79 today, newly ensconced in a house in the woods in upstate New York — Stone Ridge, an historic hamlet within Marbletown in Ulster County, to be exact, roughly 20 minutes from Woodstock, Kingston, New Paltz, and Poughkeepsie to the north and east. Per a previous post, we moved here from Staten Island in July, putting that house on the market. […]
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If, as seems quite possible now, the hubristic ineptitude of a mediocre ex-KGB officer brings post-Soviet Russia to its knees and reveals it as a second-class power, you could serve up slices of that irony (without air quotes) at summer cookouts across the free world and have people queuing for seconds right up through Labor Day weekend. […] |
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Eyes on Ukraine (1)
Though by definition I can only observe the war in Ukraine from afar, I don’t think of myself as merely a spectator, nor of this as a spectator sport. Count me instead as a concerned citizen of the world — a world that the outcome of this catastrophe will affect deeply. And someone who sees democracy worldwide at stake here. […]