Author: Fred Gardner

Biased Drugs?

Strange headline on a big New Yorker story: “Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?” So, what else is new? Leary and Alpert taught courses at Harvard in a field called “Social Relations.” Their political...

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The End of Labor Day

“Most journalists also don’t know about Heywood Broun (1888-1939), one of the nation’s best-paid columnists who risked his own financial stability to create The Newspaper Guild in 1935 to help those reporters making...

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Miller’s Crossing

“Federal Agents Search Voting Rights Group in Ohio” The NY Times headline June 12 did not convey the magnitude of the operation. The third paragraph did: “More than 100 agents with the Department of Homeland...

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June 1

Seems like success in the NBA playoffs depends on whose players are the least injured. Boston loses without Tatum. Toronto loses without Ingram, Denver loses without Aaron Gordon. Orlando without Fritz Wagner. Houston without...

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Barr-Epstein

Between me and Jeffrey Epstein there is one degree of separation: Donald Barr. As a high-school...

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Mifepristone

At the request of the great state of Louisiana, a federal appeals court has made it illegal...

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