America and Beyond
Paul Starobin, John Gayley, Leslie StarobinMaking Sense of an Age of Upheaval—in America and Beyond. Plus, for a break, Sundays in Italy.
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On Banning Russian Language in Ukraine
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The Lake America Absurdity
So, here’s the question that I just submitted to the search bar of my desktop Google Chrome browser, set in “AI Mode:”
“Is there a legal reason that Google must follow Trump in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America?”
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Re-Considering the Lobster
Do we over-analyze the lobster? Of course we do. We endow it with all sorts of Iconic Significance as a totem of, well, fill in the blank. I mean, here’s Lord Byron in a letter to a friend: “a woman should never be seen eating or drinking,...
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Paul Starobin publishes "America and Beyond" on Substack w separate sections for Age of Upheaval and Sundays in Italy. He's a former Moscow bureau chief of Business Week, a former contributing editor of The Atlantic, and author of four books.
I'm a passionate advocate of Italian wine and travel who also works in several vineyards and wineries along California's central coast. Former management consultant, now retired.
Leslie Starobin is a Prof. Emerita of Art at Framingham State University in MA. Her photographs are in many museums, including NYC’s Jewish Museum and Museum of Modern Art. She will be an Artist-in-Residence at University of Virginia in 2027.
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