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Moving Parts

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There is a scene in Milos Forman’s 1984 adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play “Amadeus” when Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) first meets Wolfgang Mozart (Tom Hulce). The young prodigy demonstrates his ability to improvise by playing his own rendition of Antonio Salieri’s “Welcome March,” which Salieri, the court composer, had written to honor his … Read more

The Answer My Friend

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This morning’s New York Times included a guest essay by retired marine general and former commander of the U.S. Central Command Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. In “Iran Got Trump All Wrong,” McKenzie lauds Donald Trump’s use of U.S. military power as an effective tool for tempering the influence and geopolitical agenda of the Iranian Islamic … Read more

Other People’s Lives

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I want you to look at him in all of his glory: “Larry the Liquidator.” The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people’s money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. … Read more

Six Degrees of Separation

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Since the last DOJ release of materials under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, many celebrities has been engaged in a newly popular parlor game that could only be called, “Six Degrees of Separation from Jeffrey Epstein.” Largely due to the number of irrelevant newspaper and magazine articles included in the January 30 dump, individuals who … Read more