Steve Kelman on Politics, Culture, and Life, 12.5.2021
Flash mob attacks on stores
To me, the flash mob attacks on stores are really scary. Sounds like something from a dystopian movie or novel.
No China in Colin Powell memoirs
I am just noticing that China does not really appear at all in Colin Powell's memoirs. How the world has changed!
How I started reading The Economist almost 60 years ago
Was reminiscing at dinner with the British spouse of a colleague last night about how I started reading The Economist. I believe I first discovered it at the big newsstand right outside the New York City subway stop at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. Took out a subscription at the beginning of 11th grade in high school. In those days, not printed in the US. You could get the regular magazine by sea mail or you could subcribe to the airmail edition flown in from London. As I remember, it was $9.95 by seamail and $29.95 by airmail. Despite my cheapness, I actually shelled out $29.95 for airmail. To save money on postage, the airmail edition was printed on a sort of onion-skin paper. It was many years before the Economist had more subscribers in he US than the UK.
I have read the magazine ever since, including changing my address to Sweden when I lived there in the early seventies.
The Economist says Covid restrictions appropriate restriction on liberty
An editorial in the Economist this week, a publication that beats most in its libertarianism, endorses restrictive measures against covid against the criticism they inappropriately inappropriately invade freedom. They use the standard, and correct, argument that people's behavior spreading covid while unvaccinated or behaving dangerously hurts others and not just themselves.
Colin Powell bothered by Bush Willie Horton ads
Colin Powell discusses in his memoirs the Willie Horton ad Bush used against Dukakis in 1988 ""Was the ad depicting this incident racist? Of course. Had it bothered me? Certainly."
My pro-vaccine mandate tweet
A pro-vaccine mandate tweet about the new agreement on the unvaccinated in Germany received an unusually large number of likes.