What Robert Redford Taught Us - by Neal Gabler
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that nearly all the eulogies for Robert Redford, who died last week at the age of 89, began with his beauty.| nealgabler.substack.com
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that nearly all the eulogies for Robert Redford, who died last week at the age of 89, began with his beauty.| nealgabler.substack.com
It is difficult, probably impossible, to say exactly when America took its final step into oblivion.| Farewell, America
Someday, fifty or one-hundred years from now, historians will examine this period, and render their own verdict on what happened to us and what it meant to us.| Farewell, America
To begin with an understatement: I am not given to political optimism, especially not now.| Farewell, America
Much of humankind suffers from a profound ego problem.| Farewell, America
There will be plenty of time, decades, I suppose, to try to explain how this nation had moved - all right, plodded – its way to social justice, and then suddenly reversed course, racing its way toward what can only be described as deep, deep cruelty and viciousness and social injustice.| Farewell, America
My dear, dear friend Bill Moyers passed yesterday.| Farewell, America
Tomorrow, as you doubtless know, is No Kings Day, and protests will be conducted across the country to decry and challenge Donald Trump’s heinous activities.| Farewell, America
Donald Trump loves to govern – or, to be more precise, he loves to rule, if you call his mess ruling.| Farewell, America
One more week, a hundred more catastrophes.| Farewell, America
Though I have no illusions whatsoever about the possibility of defeating our Hitler enthusiast president, his MAGA acolytes, mindless Republicanism, and conservatism, which is cruelty masquerading as a political philosophy - all of which endanger our nation, our world, and our moral sense - I will nevertheless be protesting on the streets this morning and bearing witness to the disaster that has befallen us, and I hope you will be too.| Farewell, America
We are living in a nightmare from which we cannot awaken.| Farewell, America
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This long, seemingly endless election campaign is finally drawing to a close, and for many of us the finale feels dire.| Farewell, America
Gibberish. When Donald Trump isn’t fueling hatreds and hyping up his crowd of hyenas, he is talking gibberish, as we all know.| Farewell, America
Watch this video from Jimmy Kimmel, if you haven’t already, and send the link to friends.| Farewell, America
I certainly don’t need to tell any of you that we – and by “we” I mean the decent majority of Americans who subscribe to the best of American values – are living in terror right now.| Farewell, America
Last night in Pittsburgh, speaking on behalf of Kamala Harris and on behalf of America’s better angels, Barack Obama was at his most eloquent, which is something, at his most fervent and passionate, and at his most moving.| nealgabler.substack.com
A newsletter from a longtime political analyst about the 2024 election and the battle to save democracy - posts that promise to challenge the conventional wisdom of the mainstream media. Click to read Farewell, America, by Neal Gabler, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| nealgabler.substack.com
Years ago – twenty-seven to be exact – I wrote a smallish book titled Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, in which I argued that the most powerful force of the then-late-twentieth century wasn’t political or religious or social or intellectual or philosophical or scientific or artistic.| nealgabler.substack.com
