The entry below isa being corss posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Global warming is no longer an abstract theory. Forget about the hockey-stick-shaped graph correlating the rapid rise in temperature with the fossil fuel-based increase in carbon emission in recent years. The data have real-life implications for every…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Rachael Rollins seemed to have such promise. She was a gutsy woman, highly articulate in a no-nonsense way. Willing to stand up to hardened criminals. Eager to challenge a cookie-cutter system of justice with an ingrained preference for…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Painfully recovering from seven broken ribs wasn’t all bad. It enabled a ton of reading. The following represents a few of the books with which I busied myself. More will be posted soon. A Burning by Megha Majumdar is a…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Toxic politics, anti-democratic nativism, uncivil behavior and willful stupidity – all dominate our sense of life in the United States today. But every once in a while, something happens that renews one’s faith in the human condition. One…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I remember when the U. S. Supreme Court was held in high esteem.Today less than a third of Americans polled view SCOTUS even somewhat favorably. Justice Clarence Thomas is a poster boy for why that is so. With a…
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The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lots of time for reading when you’re waiting for broken bones to heal! Fiction to follow. After the Last Border:Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau tells the often-checkered history of American treatment of refugees,…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newsflash! Joe Biden is a candidate for reelection. It’s hard not to be a little dispirited by the prospects of a replay of the 2020 election. As many as two thirds of both major parties are distinctly unenthusiastic…
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The entry below is being cross-post from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Three months ago, for the first time in 13 years, I took temporary leave of my blog to deal with the fall-out (unfortunate term in this context) of having tripped and broken what turned out to be seven…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. After three years of not being on an airplane due to COVID concerns, we decided to take a winter break. I should have chosen my words more carefully. Friends ask me how was my trip to Florida. A…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakins is a brilliant accounting of America’s slowness to embrace modern art, from the post-impressionists on. Even while Europe was enthralled by Matisse and intrigued by Picasso, those and…
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