Leonard Quart
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Leonard Quart is a Berkshire Eagle columnist.
Though the New York City Council's Progressive Caucus can commit political missteps, it has a clear and positive function. In the present, it must provide opposition to moderate Democrats like Mayor Eric Adams when dealing with rent stabilization and stop Adams from hiking leases again. And it must marshal opposition to what they call Adams’ “austerity budget” with its severe cuts of social services.
If at this difficult political moment I want to think positively about Israel, I reflect on the work of a few of its major authors. All were critical of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, advocating a single-state solution and opposing expansion of West Bank settlements. At the same time, they were writers deeply committed to Israel’s existence, whose work avoided being polemical and could never be reduced to a set of political positions.
Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "The film offers a clear and powerful, if slightly too sanitized version, of a Russian hero and martyr."
New York City’s subway system is one of the world’s largest and most complicated, with 472 stations and 665 miles of track. New York is also t…
Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "It’s been more than 20 years since I retired, and I now think less about City University in personal or experiential terms than as an institution that is the nation’s largest urban public university."
Famed British playwright Tom Stoppard, born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia, was the son of a Jewish doctor who fled the Nazi occupation with his fa…
For months, I followed the election polls, filled with dread about how ominous the midterm results might end up to be.
Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "The city’s gentrification is another sign, for better or worse, of how the city continually transforms itself."
