Medusa’s Stare
Episode 3: Amber and Sam discuss free school meals, Britain's war with Spain, and the art of projection.
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The Baleful and the Brightest
April 10, 2017
If you want to know what the good Lord thinks of your earthly strivings, you’ll find it in this note to Isaiah 39, in the Geneva Bible: “How greatly God detesteth ambition and vaine glory.” Pretty straightforward. What was a vice for Romans became a sin for Christians. ...
Radical Soda Pops
The revolution will be delicious, refreshing, and aggressively branded by PepsiCo.
A Poet’s Work
While the Black Arts Movement was exploding on the nation’s coasts, Mari Evans was in Indiana . . .
In Defense of Sanctuary
April 06, 2017
To move away from sanctuary by dismissing it as “merely symbolic” is either “merely ignorant” or “merely cowardly.”
Sanctuary Cities, Welcoming Ordinances, and Safe Communities
We are working together trying to redefine the concept of safety and, of course, to change the Welcoming City ordinance.
The Art of War
So many American writers and artists are critical of Trump but not of the American state, or even of America itself.
What Gorsuch Means
April 05, 2017
If the public demands that the Supreme Court serves democracy instead of concentrated financial power, it will do so.
The Real World: Trump Edition
Reality is just a marketing ploy in a world where we accept that everything is already drenched in artifice.
Defending Reproductive Rights in Texas
We have Vice President Mike Pence, who will not be in a room with a woman who is not his wife . . .
Expats After the Coup
April 04, 2017
It was to be a revolution with unfettered freedoms, and, as Allende liked to say, lots of “empanadas y vino tinto.”
High Nunes
April 04, 2017
Official oversight commissions tend to perform all of the trappings of democratic accountability while rarely resulting in lasting reform.