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jpsmith.org. Author of 9 published novels, including The Drowning, now in development as a limited series in France.
Excellent piece, Molly. Just read it in the Times.
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Excellent piece, Molly. Just read it in the Times.
Weirdly, as a Jew, I was circumcised eight days after I was born. “Early circumcision” is how Kennedy and Trump got snipped. I don’t see the correlation between a surgical procedure and autism. RFKJR isn’t a doctor or a scientist. So don’t listen to him. He’s a quack.
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Weirdly, as a Jew, I was circumcised eight days after I was born. “Early circumcision” is how Kennedy and Trump got snipped. I don’t see the correlation between a surgical procedure and autism. RFKJR isn’t a doctor or a scientist. So don’t listen to him. He’s a quack.
So much for Ikea.
September 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
So much for Ikea.
It's all fake, like the diamond cufflinks he used to hand out that turned out to be glass.
September 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It's all fake, like the diamond cufflinks he used to hand out that turned out to be glass.
As Sinclair Lewis wrote in his 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here," "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
August 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
As Sinclair Lewis wrote in his 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here," "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
Now that he's lost his job, he should definitely open a sandwich shop. Call it "Chest Fever Subs."
August 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Now that he's lost his job, he should definitely open a sandwich shop. Call it "Chest Fever Subs."
My guess—and I've been expecting it—is that he's going to have his name—in "gold," of course—mounted on the roof.
August 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My guess—and I've been expecting it—is that he's going to have his name—in "gold," of course—mounted on the roof.
I was once in Quincy Market in Boston with a friend. We both noticed a younger Dershowitz in a leather jacket canoodling with a girl probably not much older than fifteen or sixteen. So when the Epstein story first broke, and he was mentioned, I realized it must be true.
August 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I was once in Quincy Market in Boston with a friend. We both noticed a younger Dershowitz in a leather jacket canoodling with a girl probably not much older than fifteen or sixteen. So when the Epstein story first broke, and he was mentioned, I realized it must be true.
And more; lots more. Read his letters to his wife.
July 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And more; lots more. Read his letters to his wife.
Start by reading out loud to them at an early age. When my daughter was 9 and 10 I read her "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations," the entire Tolkien trilogy (plus "The Hobbit), alongside Babar, the Madeline stories, and many other picture books she always enjoyed.
July 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Start by reading out loud to them at an early age. When my daughter was 9 and 10 I read her "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations," the entire Tolkien trilogy (plus "The Hobbit), alongside Babar, the Madeline stories, and many other picture books she always enjoyed.
And remember that Hitler's yes-men were tried at Nuremberg. A few even hanged for him.
July 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
And remember that Hitler's yes-men were tried at Nuremberg. A few even hanged for him.
It's often met with a stiff kick to the toucher.
June 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It's often met with a stiff kick to the toucher.
Wait till they get here and there are more guns than people.
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Wait till they get here and there are more guns than people.
In 1957 I was invited to the Easter Egg roll, even though Easter wasn't celebrated at our home. But my uncle had worked on Ike's 2nd campaign, and one thing led to another. After it I met POTUS and the VP. A formal, quiet event that made no sense to me. Because why would anyone want to roll eggs?
April 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In 1957 I was invited to the Easter Egg roll, even though Easter wasn't celebrated at our home. But my uncle had worked on Ike's 2nd campaign, and one thing led to another. After it I met POTUS and the VP. A formal, quiet event that made no sense to me. Because why would anyone want to roll eggs?
And Trump is now the Führer, just as he always wanted to be.
April 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And Trump is now the Führer, just as he always wanted to be.
He is now the Führer, and should be referred to as such. But history shows us that dictators (excluding Franco, who lived out his life) normally come to very bad ends.
April 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
He is now the Führer, and should be referred to as such. But history shows us that dictators (excluding Franco, who lived out his life) normally come to very bad ends.
He's the kid who's taken into F.A.O Schwarz to pick out a present for himself, doesn't find the toy he wanted, so he breaks all the others just so no one can have them. Years later he returns and burns down the store.
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
He's the kid who's taken into F.A.O Schwarz to pick out a present for himself, doesn't find the toy he wanted, so he breaks all the others just so no one can have them. Years later he returns and burns down the store.
And why is his kid always there?
March 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
And why is his kid always there?
Congratulations!
March 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Congratulations!
And restaurants will be the first to fail. Alcohol is the main source of their profits.
March 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
And restaurants will be the first to fail. Alcohol is the main source of their profits.
Europe was formed long before this country was a country.
March 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Europe was formed long before this country was a country.
Just as RFK Jr. has zero medical training.
March 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just as RFK Jr. has zero medical training.
Here's a piece on one example. Also check out the First Quarto of "Hamlet," probably written by an actor while he was in the production, in which, instead of "To be or not to be, that is the question," we read, "To be or not to be, aye there's the rub."
March 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Here's a piece on one example. Also check out the First Quarto of "Hamlet," probably written by an actor while he was in the production, in which, instead of "To be or not to be, that is the question," we read, "To be or not to be, aye there's the rub."