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The Online Double-bind
Edward Curtin The trap was set at least twenty-five years ago and the mice jumped at the smell of...
Death: A Simple Idea with a Powerful Punch
Edward Curtin Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality...
Rotating on Boredom’s Spit
Edward Curtin And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream we’ve both seen” John Prine, Hello...
Phantoms of “The Operation”
Edward Curtin “Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” Shakespeare, King Lear Many thousands of New Yorkers...
Bob Dylan’s Midnight Message to JFK’s Ghost
Edward Curtin For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ.” Hamlet On May 1,...
The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US
Edward Curtin “Two categories of propaganda must be distinguished. The first strives to create a permanent disposition in its...
Keep It Simple and Question: Propaganda, Technology, and Coronavirus
Edward Curtin My father, a well-educated lawyer with a very sophisticated mind, used to advise me to “keep it...
Love is Lovelier the Third Time Around, Isn’t It?
Edward Curtin I sure as hell hope so. I’ve been going through a rough patch these last few years....
Painting A True Christ: A Review of Terrence Malik’s “A Hidden Life”
Edward Curtin There’s an early scene in Terrence Malik’s masterful new film – what I would call a moving...
The USA’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
Edward Curtin This is an updated and revised version of the full cover-story that appeared in the important publication,...
Hovering in Cyberspace
Edward Curtin We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world...
The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus
Edward Curtin Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices...
Songs of Longing for New Year’s Day
Edward Curtin Like many people, when the New Year rolls around, I think of turning over a new leaf....
A Child’s Christmas Gift of Freedom
Edward Curtin Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand...
A Star Is Always Born
Edward Curtin It is no different now. The yearning still gnaws. The night dark, utterly silent, Sky stretched endlessly...
Impeachment, the Left, and the Deep State (Keep going, Toto!)
Bill Martin Dear Off Guardian readers, Warm greetings, my name is Bill Martin. You can read a little about...
Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died
Remembering in all its emotional detail the day John Kennedy died has been a long and cold journey for...
The Metamorphosis of the Deep State
Edward Curtin It gets funny, this shallow analysis of the deep state that is currently big news. There’s something...
Ms. Pumpkin Head for President: A Nightmare
Edward Curtin A few weeks ago I had a terrifying nightmare, so gruesome was it that I awoke screaming...
The Deep State Goes Shallow 2.0
Edward Curtin This article was first published on February 21, 2017, one month after Donald Trump was sworn in...
