Author: Robert I. Grundfest
I am a teacher, writer, voice-over artist and rationally opinionated observer of American and international society. While my job is to entertain and engage, my purpose is always to start a conversation.
I love it when the media runs stories about huge multinational corporations that do not pay any income tax. Why? Because it inevitably leads to…crickets. Oh, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats will make angry speeches, but they disappear…
I think I’m rather glad that there’s nobody in the conservative movement who/s doing what Phyllis Schlafly did in the 1960s and 1970s. After all, why would we need a person who says that women should stay home, take care of their…
I’m actually glad that the Mueller Report found no credible evidence of direct cooperation between the Russians attempt to infect the 2016 election and the Trump campaign. It would be terrible, shocking and dispiriting to know that an American presidential…
A year ago, I wrote this post about Passover, Easter, and immigration. Here we are again, but the problem seems to have gotten worse. And by problem, I mean what the president says and does about people who want to escape violence….
There have been a number of articles and posts lately about the rise of antisemitism around the world, with the main point being that we’re seeing a rise in attacks, defacements and comments that question whether Jews are really trustworthy citizens. That a US…
I know that I really shouldn’t even be acknowledging that Betsy DeVos has anything useful to say about education, but the vacant smile she wears when she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, which is pretty much most minutes of…
Have you seen the Mueller Report? Me neither. But I’ve certainly seen scores of breathless posts, tweets and articles conjecturing on what it might say and what it might mean and what parts of it will be released or not…