Even If the Death Penalty Seems Humane to You, Please Say No
The death penalty is what keeps us on close terms with the lean Putin and the pudgy North Korean guy. But let's tell the...
Mahmood Swings. The Past Is the Future for Israel and Iran
The past several months, and even years, have brought a lot of talk about how an Israeli attack on Iran’s incipient nuclear capabilities will...
Sleepless in Trumptopia
Haris Durrani is a remarkable young man who recently felt that he needed to stand up and speak up. TPV has always bemoaned stupidity and...
Children, Let’s All Go with SYRIZA this Christmas!
It’s Christmas time so, if you follow European politics, it’s Greece time. Greece invented the republic as a form of governing communities, and a...
Valerie T May Soon Be Free to Tweet to Her Heart’s Content
The French satirical publication Le Canard Enchaine is not our Onion. Its articles, even when more wishful thinking than factual reports are the result...
Welcome to the Race, ADAM NAGOURNEY
ADAM NAGOURNEY is heavy artillery, and his piece, Similarities Aside, Bernie Sanders Isn't Rerunning Howard Dean's 2004 Race proves the Times has to acknowledge...
Secrets: One Year Later
Sometimes TPV is only the conduit. Today we are republishing a message from Edward Snowden. The message was posted yesterday on the blog of the American Civil Liberties Union,...
Where Obama Failed DOE Succeeded: NYC Standardized Tests Have Reached Post-partisanship (AKA, Idiocy)
In light of the 50 banned words by the NYC Department of Education (DOE), Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, for example, would be changed for the...
TPV Disagrees with Joe Nocera
NYTimes' Joe Nocera would call our readers “boneheaded" - TPV disagrees. To submit comments on the Keystone pipeline to the U.S. State Department please visit...
Time’s Up, Upper, and the Uppest
Eight actresses sick of their spouses, the loved or tolerated significant other, or just "not in a relationship" brought gender and racial justice activists...
Todd Gitlin’s Gibberish in the White House
Gibberish Is the White House’s New Normal - The bad art of the non sequitur.
Once upon a time, there were presidents for whom English seemed...
Warren’s hypothetical IMPERATIVE
Obama Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Absolutely Wrong’ on Trade Deal, because, Marquel read the text, Obama thinks her criticisms are 'hypotheticals.' Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Hypointellectual Black...
Practicing Charity and Helping Mitt Fall from Grace with Dignity
Unfairly, Mitt has been accused that he does not care about 47% of the American population. At a fundraiser, Mother Jones reports, Romney was...
TPV and the New Public Intellectual
TPV loves irony as much as it loves ideas. While HAC at Bard College is not the White House, still TPV decided to be...
