Len’s Letter #26 Who Stinketh the Most
We would have fewer opportunities to think: Who stinketh the most?
Len’s Letter #24 The Lily in the Pond
Megan McArdle said in the Washington Post: If we do [as Singapore and Hong Kong have done], we can not only keep our hospitals from overloading but also buy researchers time to develop vaccines and therapies. … we are all in this together…
Len’s Letter #23 Nightmare Conventions and Their Consequences
Americans hate chaotic, televised political conventions. Conventions are best when they are reality television – pretend contests.
Len’s Letter #19 Charles Mann’s “1491” — Reconstructing America’s Past
Mann argues that European North Americans and the Native American Haudenosaunee learned from each other. Americans were becoming a people who valued freedom and rejected obedience. He reminds us that European Americans began their rebellion dressed up like Indians to dump tea in Boston Harbor.
Constructing and Deconstructing Nations
We were shocked. Donald Trump allowed Turkey to attack the Kurdish militia that had created a mini state in the northeast of Syria.
Impeachment
This Letter was prepared a few days before Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of an impeachment process.
Len’s Letters #16 Boris Johnson and Brexit. Guest Letter by Mike Faulkner
Nothing in Johnson’s past career in journalism or as mayor of London provides any shred of evidence that he is fit for office as Prime Minister.
Len’s Letter #15 Evangelicals, Israel, and Jews.
Evangelical Christians, Jews, and Israel are an issue. Some Republicans, the President included, believe Evangelical support for Israel will wean American Jews from the Democratic Party. They shouldn’t count on it. We should understand, however, that Evangelical Christian support for Israel goes back a ways and is international.
Len’s Letters #13 Forget the Horse Race
Democrats are accused of a kind of elitism. Meritocratic elites. Members of a meritocratic elite who, perhaps, don’t quite deserve their place. Did they get a head start in the race?Did they get a head start because they were rich? Were their families members of a financial elite. Multi-millionaires. Billionaires. People who really give you a head start.