Len’s Letters #30 Male Candidates for Whom Donations Could Make A Difference
Choose a few of these. Make donations. It is easy. Just go to the links for their websites.
Women Candidates for Whom Donations Could Make a Difference
A reader asked. Can you put together a list of 30 candidates for the House of Representatives for whom donations would make a difference? Some Senate candidates, too?
Len’s Letters #28 The 2020 Democratic Platform
The platform, voted by the Democratic convention, is based on a negotiated plan between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. More accurately, negotiated by distinguished representatives of each of those men.
Len’s Letter #27 Opening School
Schools are essential to children and families. In places where the disease is under reasonable control we should open school in a way that is acceptable to most families and most people.
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.