Spread over the next few months, we will be adding to our NewsLanc web site the recently discovered articles that predated June, 2009 that were lost during the change over to the Word Press format . For any student or historian interested in Lancaster history, the early years of reporting on NewsLanc will be especially […]
Is the bar for proficiency now too high to encourage learning a musical instrument?
A couple of hundred years ago, only those living in major cities could hear professional performances of classical music. It was common for families and friends to gather in parlors to listen to amateurs perform music as best they could. The beauty of what they were playing transcended occasional mistakes, corrections, and misinterpretations. But in […]
Russians Find Historical Analogies With Their War In Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman Founding historical analogies to the Russian aggression in Ukraine became one of the popular subjects in the Russian anti-Putin media lately. There are two types of analogies. The first type is analogies with previous events in Russian history, the second type is analogies with the activity of Nazi Germany. Speaking […]
REF speaks re arming teachers
Newslanc supports allowing specially trained school teachers to have access to guns, body armor and face shields in a secure classroom closet. Only trained volunteers would have access to the closets. I recall from our visits to Israel several decades ago that every adult from army age forward was required to keep a firearm in […]
Russian Attitude to Ukrainians
By Slava Tsukerman The Internet is full of documents proving the violent attitude of the Russian military and even some Russian civilians toward Ukrainians. One especially outrageous document, which went viral on the Russian Internet, was a recording of a telephone conversation between a Russian soldier, who was fighting in Ukraine with his wife located […]
How Russians Living in the USA Feel About the War in Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman March 2014 was a time when Russia annexed Crimea and started the war in Eastern Ukraine. Russians in Russia and even Americans, who had emigrated to the US from this country, were divided in their attitude to those events. An article in New York Times, published on March 2, 2014, was entitled […]
Russians: The Meaning of the War in Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman There are two very different official Russian explanations of the purpose of the Russian war against Ukraine. The first explanation, still general Russia explanation insists that Russians want only to “free” Ukrainians from the “Nazi” government, but have no plans to occupy Ukraine or any other country. The second explanation is very […]
Russian Invasion of Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has begun. The world press is full of publications about it. Here are some quotes from New York Times: “President Vladimir Putin called on Ukrainian soldiers to put down their arms. He said that those who try to interfere with Russia’s actions ‘must know that Russia’s answer will […]
The Russian Figure Skating Drama at the Winter Olympics
By Slava Tsukerman Lately Russian news doesn’t stop bringing surprises. It seems nothing can create more discussions in the media then expectations of the possible war with Ukraine. But unexpectedly there is another subject that triggers as much controversy and discussions in Russia. This subject is the doping scandal at the Winter Olympics, involving Russian […]
Is Russian Attitude To Possibility Of War With Ukraine Changing?
By Slava Tsukerman There is a new trend in Russia: the known hawkish hard-line official personalities are unexpectedly openly turning against Putin’s politics. A recent sensation was on February 6: there was an open letter to President Vladimir Putin from Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, which went viral. Ivashov is one of the most hardline politically active […]
Learning from just waiting
by Robert Field Perhaps the most important business lesson of my life came when I was thirteen years old. During the summer, my father assigned me to work at his satellite furniture store on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia, which was about thirty feet horizontally and fifty feet vertically from the Frankfort Elevator, at that location […]
Tsukerman: Militaristic Mood In Russia is Growing
By Slava Tsukerman January 30, 2022 Militaristic tone of the Russian media is growing. More and more the Russian conflict with Ukraine is presented there as a Russian conflict with the “aggressive” USA and NATO. On January 28, an anchor of one of the main political programs of Russian TV “60 minutes”, while covering the […]
On the Evolution of African-Americans
By Robert Field Post-Darwinism insinuations that African-Americans were inherently inferior to Caucasians were clearly refuted by the brilliance and careers of such luminaries as Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, later Paul Robeson and thousands of others that were referred to as the “Ten Percent.” Nevertheless over my long life (84 […]
Militaristic Mood in Russia
by Slava Tsukerman Lately, Russian state propaganda seems to actively heat up the militaristic frame of mind in Russian population. On December 21, New York Times published an article “How the Kremlin Is Militarizing Russia”. Since then the militaristic mood of the Russian media has grown. On December 21, the blogger Igor Yakovenko summarized the […]