LeBron makes most stage moms look chill But pressure will get his son killed Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 8 min 7 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Colleges ending legacy admissions Is like governments ending tax loopholes The rich will still game the system Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 10 min 10 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Forget Churchill Zelensky is a wannabe Napoleon who thinks NATO leaders are generals executing his orders Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 13 min 30 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

We are independent. But it seems we just don’t know how to quit the British. And I find that very vexing … indeed. NOTE: This episode was originally published 7/10/2021 Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 8 min 22 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Except that you didn’t have to be a psychologist to know that Putin’s strongman stunts were overcompensating for his congenital insecurities Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 21 min 06 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Except that, for Trump, getting indicted is like winning the political lottery. Note: This episode was recorded June 15, 2023 Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 11 min 20 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

We appreciate the apology and the holiday. But what about the reparations? Note: this episode was originally posted in June, 2022 Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 17 min 30 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

If you climb to the roof of the world, but you don’t post it on social media, does that make you anti-social? Contact:ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 8 min 35 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Don't be dumbAnti-wokeism is codefor White supremacy Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 9 min 33 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Racists now think they can indemnify their racism by fronting it with a Black face like that of Clarence Thomas Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 13 min 16 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

To honor British monarchyI’m reprising this commentaryOn American democracyBoth are now doomedBy hypocrisy Note: The episode was originally published on November 7, 2020 Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 19 min 53 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

It’s unfair for biological men to compete against biological women even if those biological men identify as women Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 9 min 40 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Money motivated its lieslosing it is how how Fox News dies Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 9 min 55 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

To mark Easter, spare yourselfthe macabre ritualsand just watch'The Passion of the Christ' NOTE: This recording was originally posted on April 2, 2021. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 9 min 49 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Biden says the battle of our time is between autocracies and democracies But it is really between Republicans and Democrats Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 16 min 20 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

In one year Sergey Lavrov has gone from dean of the diplomatic core to the face of a Russian eyesore Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 15 min 36 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Talk about The Oscars is usually all about the win, loss, or snub But thanks to Grant and Bassett this one's all about the sulk Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 12 min 20 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

George W Bush Katrina defined his presidency PETFAR will determine his legacy Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 7 min 40 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Harry and Meghan are going through a really rough patch. South Park has made them an international laughing stock by lampooning their royal hypocrisy and predicting the end of their fairy-tale marriage. And Charles has served an eviction notice that they must vacate their royal-funded Windsor cottage, Frogmore, before his Coronation. Of course, Har…

Biden and Putin delivered dueling speeches to mark this fateful anniversary. Except that what they said had far more to do with political posturing for domestic audiences in the US and Russia, respectively, than with the war still raging in Ukraine. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 16 min 09 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Given the way Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is genuflecting to White-supremacist MAGA trolls like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Party can fairly be described by the idiom “Lunatics have taken over the asylum.” Only this explains putatively sane Republican minorities like Nikki Haley and Tim Scott sounding more racist than Greene these day…

For hundreds of years, Europeans explored, plundered, and colonized Africa. But decolonization offered the opportunity for Africans to reclaim not only their sovereignty but their right to self-determination. To say they have squandered it would be an understatement. But only that explains Pope Francis traveling there to save Africans from themselv…

White Australians are finally beginning to reckon with the historical fact that their ancestors did not discover Indigenous peoples. This, just as White Americans have been reckoning with the historical fact that theirs did not discover Indigenous peoples either. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 10 min 49 sec…

He will never admit it. But I am convinced Tom Brady will spend the rest of his life ruing the day he decided to betray his wife and children to play football … for a 23rd season. This episode explains why. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 12 min 18 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

A key feature of the genocidal war Russia is waging in Ukraine is the United States announcing one installment after another of hundreds of millions (and sometimes billions) in military aid to Ukraine. But that’s the problem. Because everyone in Ukraine, military personnel and civilian alike, will tell you they could have won this war months ago if…

Granted, the belief that famous people die in threes was always a silly superstition. On the other hand, you’d be forgiven the belief that they are dying in droves lately. Our interconnected world certainly makes it seem that way. This because, thanks to social media, we experience the deaths even of famous people we never met as if they were perso…

May the comfort and joy of just being with loved ones have far greater meaning than any gift you could possibly bring to them... Note: This episode was originally published on December 23, 2021. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 6 min 17 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 5 min 14 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

What does it profit a man, if he gains political power, but his country loses its soul..? Alas, for men like Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump, their profit is worth the country's loss. Netanyahu began his "reign" by giving former President Jimmy Carter just cause to admonish him about turning Israel into an apartheid state. He now seems hellbent on …

Given the way Western media are covering the protests raging across China, you’d be forgiven for thinking they portend revolutionary change. But they are just sound and fury signifying … relatively little. This episode explains why. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 19 min 42 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

I know, you’re never supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth. But some of the most celebrated recipients of the world’s most prestigious award should have done just that. On the other hand, some of the people most deserving of this award never received it. Note: This episode was originally recorded on November 20, 2021. I plan to republish it an…

It turns out reports of the death of American democracy were greatly exaggerated. Because voters not only rejected Republican calls for a Trumpian autocracy, but defied jack-booted MAGA thugs who tried to intimidate them against voting to do so. Most affirming and reassuring in this respect, of course, was all the threats of election violence and c…

Search Veterans Day and the top results will be all about holiday shopping deals. But Congress intended this day to honor those who served in the Armed Forces, especially the ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice. This episode is a forlorn reminder of that original intent. NOTE: This episode was originally published 11/10/2021 Contact: ipinionsj@gma…

What could go wrong? Well, nothing portends Twitter’s fate quite like Elon blaming “activists” for a potentially bankrupting drop in advertising revenue. I mean, how rich is that. Evidently this "free speech absolutist" is just learning the truth and consequences of free speech. Having others put an albatross around his neck would’ve been challengi…

Football replaced baseball as America’s favorite sport long ago. But, try as the Dallas Cowboy have, they have yet to replace the New York Yankees as the team Americans most love to hate. The way their season played out this year explains why. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 10 min 55 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

I’ve been in the vanguard of those hailing the transformative power of women in politics. I refer you in this regard to blog posts like “Women Make Better Politicians Than Men” October 14, 2010, and podcast episodes like “Men Should Be Barred from Politics,” December 27, 2020. Nothing vindicates this proposition quite like the women leading the pro…

Tribalism has Republicans and Democrats turning America into a first-world banana republic. This is why the smartest and fastest way for any minority group to exercise political influence is to ensure that as many of its members as possible vote as one. Miami Cubans, as a subgroup of the Latino minority, have been doing this to near perfection sinc…

People around the world have celebrated Christopher Columbus for centuries as the seafaring explorer who discovered America. In doing so, they blithely ignored the Vikings who preceded him, to say nothing of the Native Indians who greeted him. This episode is my modest contribution to the cognitive dissonance afoot that should correct the historica…

Remember how the Taliban ran US forces out of their country last year? Well, imagine the ridicule if Biden had held a treaty-signing ceremony at the White House in Washington to annex regions of Afghanistan as the world was watching that humiliation unfold. Because that’s the ridiculous nature of what Putin did in Moscow on Friday with his ceremoni…

My affection for the queen was always tempered by my contempt for the Monarchy. As the “reprobate” son of a preacher man, however, I am all too mindful that this smacks of the Evangelical canard: hate the sin, not the sinner. But I think you’ll find the explanation I offer for my inconsistency makes far more sense than the one Christians offer for …

Everyone expected the competition between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to become the next British prime minister to be pioneering. But it turned out to be pioneering in ways no one expected. Meanwhile, nothing has betrayed the British hallowed sense of tradition quite like the ruling Conservative Party forcing Britons to abide four different prime min…

There seems little doubt that Charlene is proving more than Prince Albert bargained for. The millions she cost him after she became the most famous runaway bride in history was bad enough. But she topped that by forcing him to pay many millions more by becoming his runaway wife. No doubt Charles thinks Diana was a difficult wife. But Albert would s…

My blog is replete with commentaries attesting to my belief that women make better leaders than men. They range from “Cracking the Political Glass Ceiling: First Woman to Become President in South America,” December 12, 2005, to “International Women’s Day: ‘Men Should Be Barred from Politics’, March 8, 2019. But nothing vindicates my contention qui…

No, that's not a typo. Ayman al-Zawahiri was the leader of al-Qaeda, not ISIS But you’d be forgiven for wondering why killing him is even worthy of mention, let alone this episode. After all, every time there's breaking news these days of a terrorist attack anywhere, it’s invariably the terrorizing deed not of al-Qaeda, but of its demon spawn, ISIS…

It is self-evident that nuns physically abusing school kids the way priests sexually abuse altar boys means none of them can believe God exists. Because they know no God would allow them to abuse innocent children in his name the way it seems they’ve always done. Even so, I commend Pope Francis for the humility inherent in making pilgrimages of pen…

President Biden may not know it. But everyone in Washington thinks he’s a lame duck. So it behooves him to do something dramatic to disabuse them of that thought. As any crisis often does, the war in Ukraine offers him an opportunity to do so in historic fashion. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 13 min 20 sec…

Much is being made about how the Republican Party has become little more than a political cult dedicated to Donald J. Trump. But the Supreme Court is rivaling that party in this respect. And fears abound that it will take another civil war to save America from their dystopian devices. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 22 min 19 sec…

We are independent. But it seems we just don’t know how to quit the British. And I find that very vexing … indeed. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 8 min 22 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

The European decolonization of Africa ended over 50 years ago. Yet nothing betrays Africa as still the white man’s burden quite like African leaders bemoaning about a war now raging in Europe preventing them from feeding their people in Africa. Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 17 min 50 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall

We appreciate the apology and the holiday. But what about those reparations…? Contact: ipinionsj@gmail.com Length: 17 min 30 secAv Anthony Livingston Hall