Tony D. Senatore, at The Blogs

Mar 4, 2025, 8:38 PM

Columbia University and antisemitism: (Expletive deleted) Around and Find Out

Any decent university's mission statement should be to help students think for themselves in a safe environment while declaring neutrality regarding our times' moral and ethical issues rather than nurturing and rewarding radicals in their quest to find the...

Feb 12, 2025, 9:25 PM

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show

On February 9th, 127.7 million viewers unable to attend the game watched the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX. According to Rolling Stone, the halftime show featuring Kendrick Lamar was the most watched in...

Dec 11, 2024, 12:04 AM

Progressive Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church

"After this election, I am suspicious of anyone I don’t know well. I will suspect you are a closet Trumper, which means you are not a safe person for me to be around aside from when I am required...

Nov 8, 2024, 8:49 AM

The Future Does Not Belong to Globalists: The 2024 US Presidential Election

In a stunning turn of events, Donald Trump won the 2024 US Presidential Election in a historic comeback after losing in 2020. The finger-pointing as to how this happened has already begun, as left-wing mainstream media and the Democratic...

Apr 30, 2024, 5:34 PM

Message to Columbia University: Smarten Up!

Pro-Palestine protests have spread across the United States, and Columbia University is the epicenter of the turmoil. The situation at Columbia has escalated, and protesters now occupy Hamilton Hall. In my latest opinion piece on Merion West, I asserted...

Mar 6, 2024, 11:31 PM

How to be a good conspiracy theorist

The term conspiracy theorist has become the pejorative of choice of the pundits, politicians, corporations, activists, and academics that seek to control American society, and they portray it as a right-wing phenomenon. Wikipedia asserts that former President Trump is a...

Feb 20, 2024, 12:23 AM

Walter E. Block’s Defense of Israel

In his New York Times opinion piece The Things We Disagree on About Gaza, Nicholas Kristof essentially asserts that Israel should not engage in war crimes to repay war crimes. It seems as if everyone has an opinion as to...

Feb 6, 2024, 6:28 PM

Review: Peace Advocacy in the Shadow of War by Francis Shor

I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield Down by the riverside Down by the riverside Down by the riverside I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield Down by the riverside Study war no more. (African- American spiritual) As a student at Columbia University (2013-2017),...

Dec 12, 2023, 12:07 PM

Review of Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World

Even though I have a degree in sociology, I often need help accepting the field of social science as a discipline on equal footing with physical science. Social science contains the paraphernalia of the natural sciences, such as technical...

Nov 29, 2023, 5:50 AM

Review: The Classical Liberal Case for Israel by Block and Futerman

I have always believed the true purpose of a book is not to convince individuals who agree or disagree with your argument but to advance the discourse in new directions that the author did not have time to cover...

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I was a sociology major at Columbia University, where i received my B.A in 2017, at age 55. My opinion pieces have appeared in the Columbia Spectator, the Tab at Columbia University, and Merion West. I have been called The Arthur Avenue Mozart by friends, and have been described as Paulie "Walnuts" Gaultieri of The Sopranos had he attended a prestigious Ivy League university.

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