It is the end of the beginning; I wish it were the beginning of the end. I have seen every minute of these riveting, often jaw-dropping sessions. While the events were known in their broad contours prior to the hearings, the Committee's meticulous documentation and building of the timeline before, during and after the January …
Month: July 2022
Novels to indulge in during summer
We may be transfixed by the January 6 hearings, but, when Donald Trump is back invading our dreams at night after 18 months absence, we can benefit mightily from a summertime escape into fiction. Horse by Geraldine Brooks is a tour de force. A gifted, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Brooks has used thoroughbred racehorse Lexington, raised …
Free Press: Clarence Thomas’ next target?
For maximum impact, play the soundtrack of Jaws. An assault on press freedom may not be imminent, but it's looming. For full details, see today's issue of Washington Monthly, with a front-page article on the gathering storm. James H. Barron (yes, he's the same author of the critically acclaimed The Greek Connection) documents the erosion …
Independence Day – A Call to Arms
Women's reproductive rights; pollution regulation and climate change; separation of church and state; Native American rights; gun safety - the alt-Right U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a series of severe blows to hopes for an enlightened society. In all those areas, the Court is taking the country back to where it was when I was …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 