This is a longer version of my op ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 17, 2022. Now comes the awkward part. Elon Musk says he is going through with his unsolicited takeover offer for Twitter, despite fighting in court to scuttle it. Twitter executives first rejected his bid, then accepted it—and then […]
Fear and Loafing in the Lopsided Land of Covid
This is a longer version of a column published by Newsmax.com on Nov. 9, 2021. We live in a lopsided world gone Covid Crazy. Our country is so divided we can’t even agree on how fearful we should be of the virus that China gave us. In Florida the fear is all but absent, […]
A Dad’s Death, 50 Years Later
From DK: The Wall Street Journal on July 23rd, 2021 published my op ed on my father’s sudden death and its aftermath. Below is a longer, more detailed version. My 64th birthday came on July 24th. The same date marked the 50th anniversary of a personal tragedy. At 5:32 a.m. on the morning of my […]
GameStock! Hailing a New War on Short Sellers
A higher-stakes battle lurks beneath the GameStop kerfuffle and the “Rocky”-like victory of the little guy outsmarting savvy hedge fund billionaires on Wall Street. This could be the start of a war on short sellers. It’s about time. Capitalism is optimism monetized—we invest because we believe great things can happen. Short sellers are the destroyers […]
You Can Dislike the Man and Still Vote for His Policies
A version of this article ran on newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/34p94qs With less than two weeks to go until the most important presidential election of our lifetime, it feels less like Trump vs. Biden and more like a vote on President Trump: for his policies, or against his character. This occurred to me the other day […]
Election Year Deficit: Why I Miss Unity, Comity, and, Most of All, Kindness
This article is adapted from my column on Newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/30oee3A Last Sunday night, gleefully, I started watching the TLC reality show “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” and the culminating season finale known as the “Tell All.” The real-life romantic partners and exes on the show gathered (online in this cooped-up, locked-down era) to […]
Learnings of a Ghostwriter
It has been a fascinating journey for me, migrating from my lifelong career as an ornery, contrarian journalist to my current role as ghostwriter, content creator, and crisis advisor. Having endured and learned along the way, I now realize: you gotta celebrate the wins when you can. This week one triumph of my transformation showed […]
The Trump Century
Hello all, been too long a lapse since I have posted to my own website. Part of the delay owes to lockdown anxiety: preoccupied with finding work that actually pays. ;-> And now this: The venerable television anchor Lou Dobbs, in his new book published this week, “The Trump Century,” makes the passionate yet fact-packed […]
Pricey Seats and Cheap Shots
In my many years in New York, taking in a few dozen plays on Broadway, I recently witnessed the most gripping, emotionally rewarding performance of my entire life. Too bad it ended with an anti-Trump cheap shot. Or was it? Broadway, ever shameless in its proclivity for retreading old fare, is staging a […]
How to Watch TV in a Crash
When stocks crash, everyone turns to CNBC, Fox Business et al to watch the carnage and the commentary. Here’s my advice as an anchor with a front-row seat for the last market crash: Don’t Panic. That is what I said in an op ed published this week in The Wall Street Journal. Even in these days […]