"Nude Descending a Staircase," by Marcel Duchamp.

It seems to me that anyone who has more than they need should give to someone who has less than they need.

I was just reviewing my 2009 poetic journal from my trip to Paris, and I came across this verse: “This is spirit subtly and powerfully making itself felt in a life.”

If hard work made you rich, every woman in Africa would be a billionaire.

Can you believe that Native American writer Sherman Alexi has been taken to task for “racism,” as if a member of an oppressed group has the power to oppress members of an oppressor group.

“With malice toward none and charity for all.” – Abraham Lincoln

PURE CHARITY: One which is entirely gratuitous, and which dispenses its benefits without any charge or pecuniary return whatever.

ELEEMOSYNARY: Relating to the distribution of alms, bounty, or charity; charitable.

Here’s the back cover of my first book. I am especially grateful to Peter Dale Scott for blurbing it. He is a former Canadian diplomat and is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at U.C. Berkeley.

I’ve had so many thefts.

Here's my prose poem, "GRUNT FATHERS NO FATHERS," which Andrei Codrescu published. Codrescu used to read his hilarious satirical essays on NPR. He continues to write, edit, and publish. By the way, I was so unwell when I wrote this that I doubt very much that I am responsible for it.

This excellent poetry reading took place at one of my local cafes. It is clear that there are some truly excellent poets in Philadelphia. I read my poem “From Marx to God,” which I wrote in Paris years ago.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (the NEH) put this entry about Arthur Schlesinger, jr. up on its website. The website says, "The NEH is the only federal agency in the United States dedicated to funding the humanities." I wouldn't be at all surprised if the NEH were a target of DOGE.

I asked Senator Arlen Specter's office to investigate the State Department's treatment of me, and he did it!

My father’s obituary:

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Trump’s terror memo (audio)

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The dissolution of the Soviet Union turns out to be a good thing for the American left because the American right can no longer claim that we are puppets of Moscow.

The Special Treatment

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The manager of a bar I used to hang out in once walked up to me and asked me, "Do you have a problem with white people?"

Maryland state senator aims to change how juvenile offenders are treated in the state

Someone sent me an image of Pepe the Frog.

The government is, without doubt, terrorizing migrants and would-be migrants, and the historian Timothy Snyder, who recently left Yale for a school in Canada because of Trump, has said that we now live in a “terror state.”

We should all call our Senators and our representatives and ask them to investigate this and remind them that the Constitution confers on them the right (and the duty) to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch.

My father, Phil Kerby, won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Before that, he was the editor of "Frontier Magazine," which later merged with "The Nation," which is our country's oldest political magazine.

Take the long view; down the decades, which major U. S. political party has been more antisemitic? Without a doubt, it is the Republican Party.

A Letter, Dated May 6th, 1959, from Senator Hubert Humphrey to My Father, Arguing that the Democratic Party Should Remain Liberal After Frontier Magazine merged with The Nation, my father became the Associate Editor of The Nation.