Ben Slivka

I joined Microsoft in June 1985.

ISLAM, ISRAEL AND THE WEST: A Former Muslim’s Analysis, by Danny Burmawi, was released on October 7, 2025: the second anniversary of the genocidal assault by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the largest murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

“John Kirk” (not his real name) worked for me in the early 1990s at Microsoft.

On 9/1/2025, the New York Times published a guest essay titled “We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy is Endangering Every American’s Health“.

Lisa and I bought the first Macintosh [128K RAM, 400K floppy disk] at release in the Spring of 1984 through the Apple University Consortium program at Northwestern University (I was working full-time at the Vogelback Computing Center and taking 2 classes/…

Note: I’ve had three other letters to the editor published by the Wall Street Journal.

I met USC Chemistry Professor Anna Krylov in May 2023 during my journey of understanding following my cancellation in 2022.

I am an independent voter with no enthusiasm for either political party.

In The Free Press recently, Peggy Noonan recommended the 2019 book On Democracy by e.b. white (a selection of White’s writing by his granddaughter Martha).

I was working for John Ludwig and finishing up my “Diamond” project (See *.CAB files) when John asked me to take over the nascent world wide web browser effort.