by Matthew Friedman | Jul 10, 2024 | Commentary, Editorial
I had no idea when I woke up this morning that I was going to spend most of my day trying to contact an unresponsive multi-billion-dollar media corporation and trying to save The Typescript from the predations of late-capitalist corporate colonialism. I thought I...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 8, 2023 | Commentary, Editorial
I have been watching the events in the State of Israel with horror. Hundreds, perhaps a thousand Israelis have been killed in Hamas’s attack, hundreds more Gazans have died under Israeli missiles and “bunker-buster” bombs. And the State of Israel’s Defense Minister...
by Matthew Friedman | Feb 23, 2023 | Commentary, Editorial
There was a time when I would have just brushed off the news that a neo-Nazi group would be holding a “National Day of Hate” this coming Saturday, Shabbes, 25 February, to announce to the world “loud and clear that the one true enemy of the American people is the...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 24, 2022 | Commentary, Editorial, Politics
The shabby old man was a “loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved.” And he drew the boy, “a young friend of mine” he said, deeper into his clutches. He ensured that the innocent child “was seldom left alone; but was placed in...
by Matthew Friedman | Feb 27, 2022 | Commentary, Editorial
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is sending negotiators to meet with a Russian delegation at a site on the banks of the Pripyat River, near the Belarusian border. “I do not really believe in the outcome of this meeting,” Zelensky said, “but let them try so...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 3, 2021 | Commentary, Editorial, Politics
A white man wearing a Stars and Stripes bandana threw a Molotov cocktail into the Travis County Democratic Party headquarters in Austin, TX on Wednesday, and then casually walked away. The bomb did not ignite, and damage was minor. You might not have heard about the...
