https://znetwork.org/author/robertlipsyte/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:44:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/robertlipsyte/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-farewell-to-sports/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-farewell-to-sports/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292534 In the year I was born, 1938, the White Christian males who ruled the sports world considered their various games and pastimes as definers of righteousness, crucibles of character, and a preparation for dominance in business and war. Anyone who played but didn’t look like them was an interloper, clearly operating with some kind of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-farewell-to-sports/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/growing-old-in-the-age-and-thats-the-appropriate-word-of-trump/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/growing-old-in-the-age-and-thats-the-appropriate-word-of-trump/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:18:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273339 After Joe Biden was shuffled off stage on trumped-up charges of senility, I started thinking seriously about the weaponization of old age in our world. Who gets credit for old age and who gets the boot? At 86, I share that affliction, pervasive among the richest, healthiest, and/or luckiest of us, who manage to hang [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/growing-old-in-the-age-and-thats-the-appropriate-word-of-trump/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/donald-trump-and-o-j-simpson/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/donald-trump-and-o-j-simpson/#respond Tue, 07 May 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266040 It was the jokes about Trump’s rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don’t think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I’ve lived with teenagers and I wasn’t all that surprised by yet another Trump-inspired trivialization of a critical civic institution. What appalled me was the possibility that — [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/donald-trump-and-o-j-simpson/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-on-the-run/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-on-the-run/#respond Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:16:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248295 Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a wrecking-ball running back on the football field but also as a prime example of an ever more popular obsession with people (mostly men) whose admirable achievements are shaded by despicable behavior (mostly directed at women). 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