by Matthew Friedman | Nov 11, 2020 | Essays
November 11 is a day of reflection, sorrow and gratitude for me. At the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month every year, I stop whatever I am doing and mark two minutes of silence. If I am able, I watch the Remembrance Day commemoration at the...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 8, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
“This is the time to heal in America,” Joe Biden said in his victory speech Saturday night. “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify, who doesn’t see red states and blue states, only sees the United States.” This kind of rhetoric is perhaps...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 4, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
Whatever happens over the next days and weeks, as absentee and mail-in ballots are tallied, as the inevitable judicial recounts begin and, just as inevitably, they are challenged in lawsuits and blocked – and unblocked – by the courts the fact that, after the last...
