The American Taliban – Part 5
The Political Utility of Poverty – Part 1 Put simply, if poverty wasn’t useful it wouldn’t exist. And what then is its perceived value? Social control. Consider: One American family who inherited a...
View ArticleJazz – A Riff on Integrity
June 30th, 1960, Tanglewood, slipping in a side door and climbing to secluded seats high above the stage. Dave Brubeck, Joe Morello, Gene Wright, and Paul Desmond are warming up ahead of their evening...
View ArticleWhat’s Next?
What was once American democracy is disappearing. It is being replaced by Authoritarian-Capitalism, a cross between an economic belief system and a trope version of Christianity which is hatching like...
View ArticleLet Us Now Praise The VA
The Veterans Administration is a large and sprawling organization – a bureaucracy by definition and like all bureaucracies, it has both faults and virtues. Speaking for myself I have had nothing...
View ArticleRipples Into Riptides
John Adams once wrote – “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” The unrelenting war on all forms and manifestations of...
View ArticleAmerican Agonistes?
Is it ironic that in the second decade of the 21st century we are still debating equality in a country where all are supposed to be political equals? In the 18th century, the equality debate concerned...
View ArticleThoughts on “It Can’t Happen Here”
Some time back I wrote a review of Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel, “It Can’t Happen Here”. I picked the book up again yesterday because, in fact, it did happen here. This essay will use excerpts from that...
View ArticleThe Notion of Democracy
Democracy in the United States has become notional, perhaps it has always been this way and we simply haven’t noticed. Our beliefs are always either evolving or devolving, always changing with the...
View ArticleNotes On A Foreign Country
I don’t very often publish book reviews but in this case I believe this book to be of great value to anyone trying to make sense of where our country is going. Review – Notes On A Foreign Country The...
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