T.S. Elliot summarized the issue, “When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy.” A current example is the sick morality that sees America’s program of torture during the war that “they” had done it to us and would do so again. Therefore we were not evil. The Sept. [...]

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Taint funny! There are two audiences for the New Yorker magazine — exiles from the so-called Big Apple and new immigrants who have moved into it. The former are people who used to live in New York and have had to move out of it, either across the Hudson River or the East River or [...]

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Sometimes Sen. Phil Gramm is not all that wrong about American protests over high pump prices to sustain their behemoth autos as they soak up the oil reserves of the world. Ever since President Jimmy Carter, warnings have been issued about the risks of dependence on foreign oil. Conservation, we were told, was the only [...]

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Last weekend, Americans indulged in phony patriotism, accompanied by fireworks and trumpets and pompous voices trying to sound like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Little attention was given to the people who Americans have oppressed — the aboriginal people, the African slaves, the hated Asians, Jews and Catholics. Nor was there any [...]

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The Russians call World War II “The Great Patriotic War.” The current longest of our wars could well be called the same thing. It is a war that originated in the orgy of patriotism (“U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”) that followed the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and has been sustained by the patriotism [...]

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