“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
I. America is devolving into a country without a common agreed upon past, one whose customs and institutions no longer provide the internal political or cultural coherence that is essential for it to properly function in the manner that we have grown accustomed to since the end of the Second World War. It cannot be otherwise; what one portion of a populace accepts as self-evident cannot be contradicted by another […]
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JLo is younger and has made millions and has loved Ben Affleck, although I might be able to out dance her now, but in a few months, I’ll be 73, a qualified geezer, not a millionaire and one who has never loved Ben, and in a few days, I’ll have been retired from teaching for 14 years. On some days those many years, from 22 to 59, seem as if […]
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Last week a friend of mine asked me to concisely list everything that has brought us to this present political moment. Another friend also offered his additions to my incomplete list. This is the result: Begin with an underlying distrust about government, a distrust that is 250 years old, and that has now metastasized into a profound cynicism. Add an underlying American race hatred that is 400 years old and that […]
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The American reporting on Pope Leo XIV’s election has been parochial and narrow and most often pitched in terms of him being chosen as a counterweight to Trump. The Pope must be a politician. A prime example of that is John Paul II and his support of Solidarity in defiance of the Polish Government and the Soviet Union, but the Pope is first and foremost, the leader of 1.4 billion […]
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