The City College of New York has sat there in Hamilton Heights since 1847, before the US Civil War. In the late 1930s, its canteen was filled with poor immigrant kids, all new to the New World and many of… Read More ›
politics
Trump Voters: They Have Their Reasons
Some 75 million U.S. citizens will vote for Donald Trump this time around. That’s much more than the total populations of, say, Australia (27m), Canada (42m), or Korea (52m), for example. Why do they vote for Trump? It is not… Read More ›
The Most Important Election of our Lifetime
Preamble I am forever wondering whether I really am a pinko leftist Commie Canadian Euro-Brussels bootlicker who cried into my eco tote bag when Hillary lost… or whether I’m just a rational centrist who realizes that progressive tax regimes help… Read More ›
On Our Birthday—America as Idea
The United States is a nation consciously conceived, not one that evolved slowly out of an ancient past. It was a planned idea of democracy, of liberty of conscience and pursuit of happiness. It was the promise of equality of… Read More ›
Gregory's Writings 