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Of immigrants, education, fighting and mobsters

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Naomi

Long, long, long before my encounter with a classic schoolyard bully, my grandfather Jacob took ship from Paris to Boston. At fourteen years old, he was escaping the strictures of Judaic Orthodoxy — which he had reckoned was unhealthy, especially … Continue reading →

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Why Trump will fail

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Naomi

Because of the lessons Trump is incapable of gleaning from history. Toward the end of David Kahn’s comprehensive history, Hitler’s Spies, Kahn analyzes why, given “This gigantic, jerry-built apparatus” of Hitler’s intelligence agencies, Hitler lost the war. Kahn specificies how … Continue reading →

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Why did they vote for Trump? Not for the reasons we’re being given

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Naomi

News media are repeating the same reasons why people voted for Trump by…repeating the same “reasons” those people who voted for Trump gave to any journalist who asked. That is, the news media have apparently accepted those “reasons” at face … Continue reading →

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