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Fenster writes: Like a lot of people, I expect, I first heard Aretha Franklin’s voice when I first heard the song Respect.  And like a lot of people, I expect, the first hearing of that song was one of the … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: This is a continuation of the Globe Watch I undertook yesterday. The idea behind that post: yes we have a free press in this country, and rightly so, but nothing confers on the press some special virtue by … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: My hometown paper, the Boston Globe, took the lead in the recent cooperative effort on the part of hundreds of papers nationwide to run editorials slamming Trump for his comments about the press. I think the Globe can … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: If you are planning to write a book about something or someone falling from the sky be aware that the landscape is already littered with fallen objects and you might have a copyright problem.

Fenster writes: Swedes are different from Norwegians and Lord knows they are both different from those crazy Finns originally from some place way far to the East.  But Danes are distinctive too. The manner by which the Danes have chosen … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: Why do so many things come at us in threes? Perhaps I should not put it that way.  To me it is less that the world is ordered into threes than it is that our minds may be … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: Being able to spot a fake news story is a valuable skill but truly “fake” news is a somewhat overblown issue.  Media literacy nowadays is at least as much a matter of what Sherlock Holmes termed “the dog … Continue reading →