What’s Kvetch?

I’m glad you found me. If you’ve landed here you’re probably curious and a little weird. Nowhere else on the internet will you find something at this particular cross-section of cultural commentary, TV and movies, books, geopolitics, and religion.

This place is like the barbershop in Coming to America. Maybe it’s the one guy with many faces (Eddy Murphy). Or the old Jew (Eddy Murphy). Perspective wrapped in a wry joke.

I try and post weekly. Sometimes there’s a podcast. It’s all free. You can start with 2023 or 2022 Kvetching & Books to get a sense of what Kvetch is all about.

Here’s a sample of posts:

Culture & History

• Why did comedy die?

• Polygamy series (Part I of IV)

• The Heroes We’re Allowed

• Of Kings and Immigrants

• Wild problems: marriage, kids and unchosen obligations

Lyndon B. Johnson

• Suffering Wives

• JFK

• Coke Stevenson

Book reviews

• Sex and Agency

• Every Man for Himself and God Against All

• We are made to live like firemen (partly a review of Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness)

• The Sublime Transgression of an Appalachian Hero (Matthew McConaughey's memoir Greenlights as progeny of Albion's Seed)

• The Dawn of Eurasia vs Disunited Nations

• The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

• Memoir of a Transsexual

WWII

• Hitler Story Hour

• WWII Rashamon

• Stalin’s War

• The Humiliation of France

• Is Defending Your Country Dumb?

Australia

• Australia: Sub-Imperial Power

• Zionism for Aboriginal Australians

• Australia and her Jews

Personal

• Heartache

• Why Practice Judaism?

• Fathers & Daughters

• Remembering my grandfather