Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Monday, August 15, 2022
Salman Rushdie
It is a relief to learn that Salman Rushdie is recovering from his injuries and that his assailant is in custody and will have to answer to the law for his reprehensible actions. But we must not forget Rushdie's support of the US-British invasion of Iraq. And while he did hedge that support at the close of this essay, his overall message is clear: war is the answer. He was wrong then (as subsequent history has shown) and, to my knowledge, stands by his original and, in my view, regrettable, statement.
Friday, August 12, 2022
Friday, August 5, 2022
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Hemingway on Modern War
In 1935, Ernest Hemingway penned an article for Esquire magazine in which he predicted that a second world war would break out in 1937 or 1938. "The United States would doubtless be brought into it by a combination of propaganda, greed, and the desire to cure 'the impaired health of the state.' Modern war, said Ernest, is always planned and waged by 'demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule....'"
Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1969), 275.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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Thursday, June 23, 2022
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Friday, June 10, 2022
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
Sunday, May 29, 2022
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Saturday, May 21, 2022
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Reason for Hope
Few things give me hope like Donald Trump's passion for fast food. We are all just a double cheeseburger away from being rid of this canker sore on the American body politic.
Friday, April 1, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Truth about Madeleine Albright
She was a pioneering imperialist who passionately advocated greater use of deadly violence in pursuit of a US-dominated post–Cold War global order — and killed many, many people in the process.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Friday, February 25, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Monday, February 21, 2022
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