Suppression of expression in an art gallery (it easily happens when Israeli actions are involved)
Please read two online accounts, one in the New Yorker and the other posted on the excellent blog Mondoweiss , about a recent incident at the Gagosi…
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Julian Assange: Did he or didn't he?
I'm linking without comment to the most detailed and interesting article I have seen yet on the sexual misconduct allegations against the WikiLe…
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Obama's betrayal on "Don't Ask Don't Tell" comes home to roost
What will the Obama Justice Department do now that the Senate has pretty much killed repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? Will it co…
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Another mine explosion: Will the mainstream media get it right this time?
News is breaking today that 27 miners are missing after an explosion in a New Zealand mine . After all the hoopla over the Chilean miners, in which m…
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If you don't like the verdict, move to another "court"?
In his story in today's New York Times about the acquittal of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of 285 charges related to the 1998 embassy b…
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Nazis were given safe haven in the U.S.
Someone has leaked a long-suppressed Justice Department report on this topic to the New York Times , which carries an article about it today. A heav…
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Is debate about its history now taboo in Israel?
The photo at right is of Lisa Strombom, a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden. She has just completed and defended (yesterday) a thesis about th…
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Courageous young Jews disrupt Netanyahu speech at Jewish Federations General Assembly
Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo . I'm sure that some critics will try to brand the heroic ac…
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Getz and Coltrane together
This blog is supposed to be about many things, including jazz, but I've been so busy lately I didn't even blog about going to see the sensa…
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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