Note: I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Jeudiel Martínez on Facebook chat July 17th after I read the essay, Cuba Libre (below, in English, la versión en español está aquí) a few days after the unprecedented protests that shook Cuba on July 11th. I thought readers might find a little background…
Two new posts came out today—what a Bastille Day this year!—and there’s a strange synchronicity about it all. You know, Bastille day, July, the month of Revolutions (US on July 4th, Venezuelan on July 5th, the Cuban on July 26th, the Nicaraguan on July 19th , and of course France in July 1789 and…
Out of respect for Mr. Marti, I’m posting a link to his post, and to another here, wherein he claims Biden stole the 2020 election and responds to my article at Caracas Chronicles. I make these available to those of you who have the time, interest and inclination to read work that appears to me…
Dr. Richard Miller, with Charlie Deist at the controls, conducted an interview with me on April 6th for the series “Confessions of Psychedelic Elders.” I admit to having thoroughly enjoyed the hour +, and who wouldn’t enjoy an hour to talk about themselves? I hope it was useful in the present struggle to gain some…
You can read my review of Brian Muraresku’s The Immortality Key here at Quillette. It stirred up quite a response from those readers, always a very critical, free-thinking bunch of people, in my experience. Of Quillette readers, that is. Some of the comments bear particular consideration. For instance, the first comment by Ian_A. He says,…
I struggled over the past few days to write a fitting tribute to my dear friend, our dear friend, David Fetcho, but I was fortunately spared the agony of finding fitting words by Jim Friedrich, who wrote an extraordinary piece you can read here. And I highly recommend that you do. David’s interests and talents…
I don’t like “attacking” people and prefer to keep discussions to ideas. It’s part of a program I try to practice of “principles before personalities” and my dear life partner and wife, Marcy Rein, has helped me in that process immensely. It’s particularly painful to me to go after someone who I’ve once respected and…
(traducido por Guillermo Useche del artículo en inglés, “Your Friend Trump.”) Imaginen mi sorpresa al escuchar que a los padres de mi amigo venezolano les gusta Trump. Yo supongo que “la distancia hace crecer el cariño” pues por muchos años Chávez tuvo el mismo efecto en mí. Y ya que estamos en aforismos trillados pero…
(La traducción al español, hecho por Guillermo Useche, sigue después de la versión en inglés) https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/in-2016-republicans-called-democrats-sore-losers-after-election-95846469523 Take a look at the difference between the Democrats and Republicans… For four years now I resisted the temptation (not always successfully) to add in this blog to the clamor against Donald J. Trump, knowing that he already was…
Michelle Goldberg’s “Four Wasted Years Thinking about Donald Trump” was published today at the New York Times (yeah, they have a paywall you might not be able to jump; but, as consolation, do you REALLY want to read another piece on that shitpile DJT?). After listing all the casualties of 45’s presidency, Goldberg concludes that…