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Robert Kahn

Robert Kahn

Deputy editor emeritus, Courthouse News

Latest Articles by Robert Kahn

A Mexican-American reality TV show for gringos

I hate television, so I’ve never seen a “reality show,” whatever that ‘sposed to be. But I ain’t been in a coma for 30 years neither (if only). So please behold my Mexican-American reality show for gringos.

The day Julius Caesar bought the farm

On the day Julius Caesar told a soothsayer, “The Ides of March are come,” (implying that the soothsayer had not said sooth), the soothsayer replied, “Fine. Have a nice day.”

What rough beast?

W.H. Auden summed up this gruesome election year decades ago in his comment on Hamlet: “He was his situation.” Just so, we have become our situation.

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