Spiegelman in Santa Cruz
By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, April 15, 1992 Somebody in the UC Santa Cruz...
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New York Times Salutes Dana Beal
Sunday May 2, 2021 Today’s New York Times ran a quite respectful account of Dana...
Read MoreClaud Cockburn’s ‘Double Personality’
In his autobiography, I, Claud…, Cockburn describes being recruited to write for the Daily Worker in late 1936:“It was about this time that Mr. Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whom I had never met,...
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Fred Hampton’s Chicago
After watching Judas and the Black Messiah, I called John Woodford for a reality check. In the...
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Shig’s Accusation
March 3, 2021 When Ferlinghetti died I thought maybe I should write what I knew about Shig’s...
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Nora Volkow, Our de facto Drug Czar
March 1, 2021 President Biden has not yet named a new director of the White House Office on Drug...
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The Villain Leshner
By Fred Gardner 2/22/21 I don’t know which chemicals are released in which parts of the...
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‘Drug Use For Grown-Ups’
Dr. Carl Hart, a neuroscientist on the Columbia University faculty, is the most audaciously...
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COVID-19 and Cannabis
By Fred Gardner 1/2/21 Joe D. Goldstrich, MD, is 82, sharp as a tack, and intent on avoiding...
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