Robert Trippet
“Stealing From the Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle” by David C. McClintick (Evans, 1977) recounts how a Tulsa, Oklahoma lawyer named Robert Trippet masterminded the most lucrative Ponzi scheme of the 20th century....
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Two Words Instead of One
I always read those cute little lists in Harpers and it dawns on me that I might have one to contribute. Over the years in my AVA column I’ve remarked the replacement of one word for two in modern American usage. For...
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Daniel Ellsberg’s Real Role
Eulogies honoring Daniel Ellsberg as a “whistleblower” are misleading. He didn’t...
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Mare Island Nuclear Memories
In 1979 a mutual friend put me in touch with Gerry Stone, a Mare Island shipyard worker who had...
Read More‘Prolonged Grief’ is now an Illness
The American Psychiatric Association has added “Prolonged Grief Disorder” to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder —a list of conditions for which insurance companies reimburse doctors. To break...
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