Unfiltered with Josh Cohen

 I suppose I would, generally, describe my stance as an observer of life as that of the "witty cynic". That is I can, at times, take a rather alarmist and reactionary (note that I didn't say wrongheaded) approach to the great political and socioeconomic strife we all find ourselves in. Further, I am able to use my immense faculty of sarcasm to comment on these deformities in ways that are not entirely uninteresting. However, there are some events that occur that awaken my secondary impulse as a "cautious optimist". Unless I am much mistaken, that is an impulse that resides within all us, even if only dormant.  Submitted for your consideration and as an appeal to that fledgling spirit of optimism... Mr. Vaclav Havel. Here was someone whom, armed with nothing but the ink of his pen and the wit of his mind, ridiculed and ultimately abolished, that is to say, overthrew the edifice of totalitarianism in his native Czechoslovakia. This was culminated with the expuls...

Well, this has been quite the circus, hasn't it? And for all the wrong reasons. The one thing that hasn't been discussed in any noteworthy measure over the course of the nomination hearings has been the one thing that should have been the focus... Mr. Kavanaugh's politics. "Will he overturn Roe v. Wade?", was the only topic that was even tangentially or peripherally covered in all this mess. I know that there are many who will read this that won't be exhilarated by this prospect, but I will say that I am. I think it would be a long overdue act of justice from a legal standpoint and mercy from a moral standpoint. Perhaps, that's best reserved for another article. Alas, amidst unsubstantiated (and uncorroborated) claims of sexual assault by former High School alum Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford   , all pertinent discussions have been regarding how many beers were consumed by whom over 30 years ago and what may or may not have occurred. Oh, and no one seems to...