Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Columns by Brian Greenspun

  • Solidarity with Israel a hallmark of great US leaders
    I want to talk about three Jewish leaders. The first two are Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The third ...
  • Oscar speech was an affront to Holocaust victims
    Everyone who watched this year’s Academy Awards on March 10 will remember that one moment of controversy when British movie producer Jonathan Glazer tried to equate Israelis with Nazis ...
  • McConnell surprises no one on the way out the door
    Mitch McConnell said “it should come as no surprise …” The lame-duck U.S. Senate Republican leader was talking about his endorsing Donald Trump last Wednesday immediately following Trump’s Super Tuesday rout of Nikki Haley, which all but locked up ...
  • Unity used to trump division in America
    Since I am close to President Joe Biden’s age and earthly experience, I am comfortable talking about the way things were. This has led me to the conclusion that the disconnect that some Americans are legitimately indulging in this election season may be the result of what they don’t know or don’t remember.
  • Biden’s new Middle East doctrine a road map to peace
    I have faith in Biden’s ability to calibrate the right action in a part of our world that few Americans really understand. He does.
  • Nathan Hale’s sacrifice echoes in ’24 election
    When I was growing up and had to learn all about the United States and our Founding Fathers — men braver than most today, smarter than almost everyone today and blessed with the ability to see far into the future in ways few today can or even want to contemplate — the story of Nathan Hale animated us.
  • Trump’s chaos and bedlam? State GOP is already all in
    If Nevadans want the saner choice of Nikki Haley, they can cast a ballot for her in the primary on Feb. 6. But even if she wins, she can’t get Nevada’s delegates ...
  • These gatekeepers of hypocrisy elevate the Palestinian cause to status of untouchable
    It seems that no deed can change the elite’s embrace of the Palestinian cause. In any discussion following such outrages, the default response ...
  • US leadership needed to ease world’s tremors
    It’s a new year. How about some old thoughts? As in millions of years old! There are tectonic plates that have shaped our planet since the beginning of time. If ever there were a description of being between a rock and a hard place ...
  • Cracks in the foundation of our future
    My peers and I agreed that academics and mental health shared an intimate connection. As one student in my peer group put it, “It’s nearly impossible to focus on school when you’re struggling to survive.” While the expression “struggling to survive” might be an overstatement for some students, survival is a legitimate concern for others. This is especially true for students who are expected to navigate and fulfill adult responsibilities with limited social or familial guidance or support.
  • Teens can add to public discourse, if only adults would allow it
    Teens like me are too often conditioned to conform to what adults say, even as we suppress our disagreement or discomfort. The pressure to remain silent only increases for people from historically marginalized backgrounds or those who lack the power and influence to meaningfully or immediately change their circumstances.
  • Are young people up to the challenge? It’s not a stupid question
    Why are Americans so stupid? Relax, it’s just a question not an accusation. Not yet, anyway. I will leave that part up to you. Stupid — and only in this context — can be interchangeable with words like unknowledgeable, undereducated, willfully ignorant ... and millennial. ...
  • Raising a finger to civility is no way to move America forward
    Since this is still a family newspaper, I will try to be respectful of what should be family values. And even though almost everybody — even those who claim never to use such words but every once in a while just can’t help themselves — has heard or said it before, I write today about the F-word.
  • Las Vegan says world must not stay silent this time around
    My name is Jerry Engel and I am a proud 93-year-old Jew who has lived in Las Vegas for 70 years (since 1953). Despite my age and Jewish identity, I am not a Holocaust survivor, and I am grateful that I have never experienced ...
  • Would our misguided progress roil the Pilgrims?
    As Thanksgiving approaches, it is reasonable to think about the trials and tribulations that the Pilgrims encountered when they landed at what would become the new Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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