This blog is now over 14 years old, and it’s been 4 years since its creator, Dr. Steve Schwartz, was fatally stricken with Covid-19. Without his presence, some changes were inevitable, although the fact I’ve been a contributor since the blog’s inception helps provide continuity. Ma[...]
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I like Robert Reich, but he’s wrong about price controls
I liked him when he was Clinton’s labor secretary, because of his labor-friendly policies and defense of working-class people, with whom I’ve identified since my youth. Reich (bio here), a Dartmouth and Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, has been a professor at [...]
WSJ doubles down on Jill Biden insult
Joseph Epstein, 83, is a man of letters. He was editor of Phi Beta Kappa’s magazine from 1975 to 1997, and a visiting lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 to 2002. His own academic credentials consist of a B.A. from University of Chicago, although he actually studied at the University[...]
August 23rd, 2020 - 7:00 pm § in Misc.
How bad will it get for colleges?
Dozens of universities and colleges were already under financial stress from declining enrollments and state support before Covid-19 shut down campuses. With classrooms and dorms shuttered, some may not survive. You’ve possibly heard of the Federal Reserve’s bank “stress tests̶[...]
August 6th, 2017 - 4:02 am § in Misc.
Birthday of Judah Benjamin
The dominant Jewish personality of the Confederate South was Judah P. Benjamin, described by one writer as the “most important American-Jewish diplomat before Henry Kissinger, the most eminent lawyer before Brandeis, the leading figure in martial affairs before Hyman Rickover, the greatest America[...]
Jews as Nazis
A Long Island neurologist, who delivered the dvar torah at the ZOA’s gala, regaled the ballroom with tales of the ancient Israelites who witnessed miraculous interventions into the natural order. “Well, so did we,” bellowed Alan Mazurek. He declared that the election had been “divinely direc[...]
August 9th, 2016 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 132: On Elie Wiessel and Bill Quick
On FACEBOOK: Bill Quick responding to a post about Buchenwald: “It is so sad that Stephen continues to mislead readers with these statements. (1) There is no documentation that I am aware of that Dr. Robert Schwartz actually provided “medical care” at Buchenwald. There is a letter[...]
July 3rd, 2016 - 9:23 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 127: Elie Wiesel Will Never See MY Dad’s Photographs
My heart is broken. Elie Wiesel is dead. Most of my life Elie Weisel was a second sun … a bright star in the solar system, a star that served as a center of gravity when this post-Holocaust world seemed too flawed to be endured. Elie’s death hurts so much more because my own fight s[...]
April 16th, 2016 - 12:15 pm § in Misc.
Buchenwald 111: A dialog with Bill Quick on FACEBOOK
Bill Quick It’s sad that you’re so full of hate. Stephen Schwartz Why do you think I hate? Frankly, if you mean the family conflict, I feel anger and hurt, not hate. I would still do anything I could to help my siblings, despite the huge damage they have done to my family. Stephe[...]
April 10th, 2016 - 9:36 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 108: William Quick attacks my father again.
From Facebook: Bill Quick to Ken Waltzer Ken Waltzer — it’s a shame that Stephen Schwartz is constantly posting half-truths and misstatements about his father and about his father’s putative role at Buchenwald both on his own blog and on Facebook. For starters, ther[...]