Writer, producer, director - thirtysomething, Last Samurai, My So-Called Life, Dangerous Beauty. Let's build a future for our children - and their children. LA, PDXhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mpear2bfwc2f1) Further evidence that a growing part of the Democratic coalition has disconnected from reality. The activist screaming in Wiener's face crossed the line from political speech to physical threat. (A threat against a pro-trans candidate-- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/us/scott-wiener-trans-march-gaza-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tlA.nTnP.V675hXlvb40P&smid=bs-share28 Jun 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpear2bfwc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mp4n4owrck2l1) A righteous and necessary Democratic populist economic movement is in danger of being hijacked by extremists who espouse insanity already rejected by 90% of Americans. Dems must decide if they're willing to do the hard work of saving America-- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/opinion/nyc-election-primary-avila-chevalier-lander-valdez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s1A.NL23.GzPz0ecLKTIV&smid=bs-share25 Jun 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4n4owrck2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mom65xjnys2jOnce in a great while the news is not all bad: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/ocean-monitoring-system-reversal-trump-administration?CMP=share_btn_url19 Jun 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mom65xjnys2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mnnckg2mtk2e1) Today is a day to teach and remember. First and foremost the heroism of those - many our fathers and grandfathers - who waded into hell in order to save freedom from the forces of tyranny. But we must also teach and remember that millions--06 Jun 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnnckg2mtk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mnl3kuuw3k2d1) Piece notes today's average CEO pay is 465 times what workers make. Not noted is that in 1965 - during America's greatest period of growth, when the world's greatest middle class was built - average CEO pay was only 30 times-- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/business/highest-paid-ceos-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.kPbl.jAcDM6s3Nmmw&smid=bs-share05 Jun 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnl3kuuw3k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mngp62z6dk2nSebastian Junger is a brilliant writer, a serious person with very penetrating things to say about everyone and everything surrounding the Graham Platner phenomenon. Read this. I JUST HAD BREAKFAST WITH GRAHAM PLATNER https://open.substack.com/pub/sebastianjunger/p/i-just-had-breakfast-with-graham?r=7fqpl&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web04 Jun 2026 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mngp62z6dk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mn64nxleec2xRemarkable piece by David French should be the basis of a mandatory course in every high school and college in America. If you can't see behind the paywall, the most important sentence is Santayana's: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/opinion/communism-fascism-authoritarianism-democracy.html?smid=bs-share31 May 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn64nxleec2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmz5a3aw5c2uMany lessons can be learned from how Hungary finally defeated Orban. This is perhaps the most important: "They were united by a sense of moral outrage." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/hungary-win-election-viktor-orban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mFA.a09_.jBpc4qK7EC5s&smid=bs-share29 May 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmz5a3aw5c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmnleztkp22gYou have to actually read it to understand how corrupt this administration really is:25 May 2026 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmnleztkp22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmht4xv3qk24Once again @washingtonpost.com shows how shamefully captured it is by tech self-interest. See below the substance of Trump's EO, perhaps the most reasonable he's ever contemplated, reminiscent of safeguards against nuclear accidents. To WaPo it is unendurable government intrusion. wapo.st/4varGo122 May 2026 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmht4xv3qk24https://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmhj3bccjc2uDreyer never mentions that as an authoritarian state, China's people accept universal surveillance as a normal part of life. Americans don't, and shouldn't. And they're just learning that every time you use AI you're helping to create a universal surveillance state. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opinion/ai-china-america-race.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.pgOm.gNTycnWxuJAy&smid=bs-share22 May 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhj3bccjc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmg3jrknqk2gThe secret to understanding AI is simple: the sociopaths creating it are the aliens in Rod Serling's 1962 masterpiece "To Serve Man." https://youtu.be/Zp_EhjlLGkQ?si=h0hG64enLLGKFs3L22 May 2026 04:22 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmg3jrknqk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmeydndgzc2z1) Even Newsom misses the point: Firing 20% of white collar workers will leave 14 million highly-skilled people unemployed. At the height of the Great Recession there were "only" 10 million unemployed. But it's even worse. These-- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/technology/newsom-ai-executive-order-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.7BG_.RxRUg2jUg2NM&smid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/technology/newsom-ai-executive-order-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.7BG_.RxRUg2jUg2NM&smid=bs-share21 May 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmeydndgzc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmcscwreb224As the Trump era unravels before our eyes, Americans must reckon with the fact that authoritarianism isn't what did him in; millions cheered his smashing of our most sacred values. In the end we were just lucky. He was more interested in looting the country than in being a dictator.20 May 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcscwreb224https://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mmajq5hp6k24Yes, we must win the AI race with China, just as we had to win the nuclear race. But the nuclear race was controlled and PAID FOR by the govt for the good of the American people. The AI race is controlled by billionaires who only want to beat China so they can make trillions destroying human labor. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 May 2026 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmajq5hp6k24https://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mm5fzk57bc2tRampant corruption. State-sponsored cruelty. The definition of a functioning liberal democracy...18 May 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5fzk57bc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mm2xa5nma22t1) Kevin O'Leary is following a 90-year history of right-wing propaganda calling out Communist, Russian, Chinese influence on liberal US movements. To be clear, foreign governments try to influence US politics all the time, but they do it across the board, giving money to pro-Palestinian groups as--17 May 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2xa5nma22thttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mm2wni27yc2tA universal surveillance state is completely at odds not only with the 4th Amendment but the very founding of America. You can't have a free country if your movements are constantly tracked by the government. Just look at China. This idea would have been unthinkable to our forebears. wapo.st/4uc4aXn https://wapo.st/4uc4aXn17 May 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2wni27yc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mljeblh7kk2p1) Huge admirer of French, but I think he's wrong in his attack on Platner. There are many American men like Platner, with a history of saying and doing wrong things, and condemning them is ironically more a left wing problem than a conservative one, yet here-- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/opinion/graham-platner-democrats-senate-maine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hVA.Fkxc.OKI5sXQiFoJM&smid=bs-share10 May 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljeblh7kk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mljbji4kic2jDoesn't matter how many seats the GOP steals, Democrats will simply have to work harder. They've spent a year-and-a-half whining in passivity instead of presenting a muscular vision to all Americans of freedom, prosperity, ending corruption, and igniting hope. We need another Greatest Generation.10 May 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljbji4kic2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3mlbooxktws2pPerhaps the most misunderstood word in today’s political universe. Time to reclaim what it really means. New piece on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallherskovitz/p/on-liberalism?r=7fqpl&utm_medium=ios07 May 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbooxktws2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mherskovitz.bsky.social/post/3ml7xvebjds2cON LIBERALISM Thoughts On An Endangered Word My first essay on Substack. Hope you enjoy it! https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallherskovitz/p/on-liberalism?r=7fqpl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true07 May 2026 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:mcypsc2vfpgopsp7nc2tp363/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7xvebjds2c