Daniel Schwartz

10 Clips That Give Hope to Humanity | The West Wing youtu.be/uxqQ1HhpMfQ?si… via @YouTube

@CollinRugg Wow!

NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. "If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything." "As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land." Video: Local 12 WKRC

2/ “… The body politic is restless, and, because Sabbathless, is devoured by the urgency of control that is willing to violate neighbor and to violate the Constitution.”

1/ Disruptive Grace by Walter Brueggemannin his lecture “Sabbath As Antidote To Anxiety: “ I conclude this exercise with the conviction that such systemic anxiety no doubt feeds the war effort, feeds the crisis of gays and lesbians, feeds the loudness about immigration…”

“Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding.”

“Without a clear moral or political purpose, we’re left with what the military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady calls the ‘strike-as-strategy” paradox, in which we substitute tactical prowess for comprehensive strategic design.’”

“…. I realized how one rationale for this war has remained clear and consistent: the administration’s delight in displays of violence and domination.” Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opi… via @NYTOpinion

As CBS retreats from radio - which 233 million Americans use - NPR remains on and the audience is up. The main CBS product was a short hourly newscast. NPR’s hourly news is on your local station - and also available on demand! Hit Play on the NPR app apps.apple.com/us/app/npr-nat…

“‘Think of it as the new Trump Doctrine for the Middle East,’ Richard N. Haass, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on social media. ‘We broke it, but you own.’”nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…

What Is the Left’s Theory of Power? nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opi… via @NYTOpinion @FIAnational @ddroyster

“‘It’s just obvious to Jewish Americans and others that this is not about protecting Jews,’ said Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University and the first Jew to hold the post. ‘This is about attacking institutions with which the president has a beef.’”

“A representative of the American Academy of Jewish Research, for example, said in a court filing that the Penn demand ‘endangers the privacy, safety and freedoms of Jews.’”nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…

Trump-Gate: 2015-2021; 2025-2029 - hopefully no more years after that.

The Irresistible Glow of Tunis nytimes.com/2026/03/20/tra… via @NYTimes

How New Mexico Became an Obamacare Success Story nytimes.com/2026/03/20/hea… via @NYTimes

Your reminder that the folks who say the SAVE Act is critical don’t actually enforce Voter ID laws when it’s one of their own.

Catholics are called to reject antisemitism and the lies and conspiracies that fuel it, and to stand clearly against hatred and violence directed toward our Jewish brothers and sisters. To defend religious freedom with integrity, we must also reject antisemitism. @ArchbishpSample @archdpdx Watch the full video at: ow.ly/sYF550Yw6cA

@NeilMacFarquhar, I really appreciated this analysis U.S., Unmet Expectations in Iran Fit a Familiar Pattern in the Region nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/… via @NYTimes