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Richard Abramson

Richard Abramson

Book Review: Kazuo Ishigura’s Klara and the Sun

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishigura’s most recent novel, Klara and the Sun, revolves around Klara, a perceptively sentient AF —…

3 min readAug 11, 2022

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Richard Abramson

Point of View: Or, We’re Not Dead Yet

One hears the whispers — “they’re growing older, Winter looms, their days grow colder.” One never knows, they shake their heads, Might not…

2 min readJul 5, 2021

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Richard Abramson

For Many of Us, Your Vaccination Is Our Only Defense Against the Virus

As new cases of COVID-19 fall, hospitalizations plummet, and we begin to return to something more closely resembling normal life, the…

3 min readMay 15, 2021

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Richard Abramson

A Type-A in Retirement: or It’s Hard to Aim When You Don’t Have a Target

I retired from the practice of law a few years ago, after a long and reasonably successful career. Top law school, federal court clerkship…

5 min readMar 14, 2021

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Book Review: Utopia Avenue, by David Mitchell

If David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue — which traces the arc of a progressive folk-rock band in late-1960’s London — were a movie, it would be…

5 min readJan 19, 2021

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Richard Abramson

James Buchanan is No Longer the Worst President Ever

For one hundred and sixty years, historians who disagree on most things have been more or less united on at least one point; that James…

5 min readJan 17, 2021

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Richard Abramson

Just One Wish

I was at the Farmer’s Market, minding my own business, when I noticed an old brass lamp sitting on the ground. I picked it up and rubbed…

1 min readJan 3, 2021

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Richard Abramson

I have a good friend, an accomplished novelist, who sometimes recommends a book.

In most novels, of course, we are privy to the internal thoughts of the protagonist and, perhaps, one or two others. These are the…

4 min readDec 13, 2020

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Richard Abramson

Americans Can’t Handle the Truth

Thank goodness for the kindness of Donald Trump. As Bob Woodward reports in his latest book, by consistently downplaying the severity of…

3 min readSep 12, 2020

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Even Donald Trump’s Sister …

August 24, 2020

3 min readAug 25, 2020

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Richard Abramson

Richard Abramson

Former IP litigator, former scientific research institute GC; presently teach at Stanford GSB; just released first novel, The Virtues of Scandal

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