“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 awoke this morning to the dead in Maine after one more mass shooting, to the dead in Gaza and Israel and Ukraine, to a MAGA anti-democracy fanatic becoming third in line to the Presidency, to a dramatic increase in antisemitism after the worst pogrom since the Holocaust, to an article in the Times about climate destruction , to Trump the destroyer of everything decent and good, always to Trump, since 2015, […]
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Reading Oedipus feels like standing on granite outcroppings on the Maine coast looking seawards. The rock is among the oldest on the planet and the Atlantic was formed about 150 million years old. Birds, sun, clouds, sky, rock, ocean. Oedipus feels as fundamental in its portrayal of human beings – universal in our capacity for blindness, essential and primordial in the rawness of its emotional power. In this time, Kings, […]
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They murdered entire families, raped women in front of their dead friends, cut the heads off children. They pursued the unarmed and screaming just for the joy of slaughter . They would do it to every Jew they could capture — all of them if they could. They have told us this. They want there to be no doubts. This is the crucial section of Hamas’ 1988 Covenant , its central philosophical belief: “Moreover, if the links […]
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Three hundred and sixty-six days ago I almost died while sitting in a parking lot and trying to decide if I should try to get up to go in and collect the pizza we had ordered. My heart was jackknifing from 20 beats per minute to 200. The EMT saved my life. A few weeks later, wires pushed through a vein burned the circuit in my heart that had almost […]
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