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Fathers and Sons
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“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.” Friedrich Nietzsche Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains...
Memorial Day: It’s Not About the Dead Soldiers but About Glorifying War
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Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is,...
Let Me Now Praise James Agee
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On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome are these words, which he chose:...
Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
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“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past....
At the Lost & Found
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My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me...
Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?
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We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming...
A Tuneful Irish Tale
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“Accomplished fingers begin to play. Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” WB...
Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime Between Trump and Zelensky?
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Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first...
Modern Times and Ancient Truths
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Eighty-nine years ago this month, the film Modern Times, starring Charlie Chaplin, was released. Considered one of the greatest movies...
Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
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There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as...
Are the Dead Nostalgic?
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I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections...
Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and Gaza
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Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are...
My Internal Exile
“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible,...
Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
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In his 1959 classic book, The Sociological Imagination, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people are often...
A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
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“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die...
Everybody Knows: Do They?
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“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on...
Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears
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“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me...
Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
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It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7...
The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
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It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that...
The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
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“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as...
