My Internal Exile
“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;...
Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward Curtin
In his 1959 classic book, The Sociological Imagination, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people are often reduced to moral stasis and feel trapped and overwhelmed by...
A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward Curtin
“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country”) Wilfred Owen Yes, it seems fitting that...
Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward Curtin
“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on Tuesday, November 5th, I was sound asleep, like a baby...
Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears
Edward Curtin
“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me be silent.” Samuel Becket, Endgame Before he went to Rockaway Beach...
Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
Edward Curtin
It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001,...
The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward Curtin
It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To...
The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward Curtin
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.” William Blake, Eternity “But...
Another September 11th
Edward Curtin
Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began their theatrical “debate”), it being another September 11th, I...
Mirages
Edward Curtin
I am sitting on the beach at the National Seashore, a forty-mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean seashore on Outer Cape Cod, established in 1961 by President Kennedy....
Something’s Coming, We Don’t Know What It Is But It Is Going To Be Bad
Edward Curtin
“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s soon…” “Something’s Coming,” lyrics by S. Sondheim, music by...
The Ardent Pipe Dreams of American Voters
Edward Curtin
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie...
Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions
Edward Curtin
A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee,...
A Father’s Day Message to Rory McIlroy
Edward Curtin
I’m easily old enough to be your father, and as I was watching and rooting for you when you missed those putts earlier today at The U.S. Open, I...
If The Wars Go On
Edward Curtin
I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about...
Fire in the Soul: Nick Lyons
Edward Curtin
With lilacs in the dooryard blooming a week ago, I was struck by a sense of synchronicity so strong that I stood stone still and sniffed the air for...
The Killer Instinct
We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after. I was ten years old, as was my companion John. The island lay in...
REVIEW: The JFK Assassination Chokeholds
Edward Curtin
During my many years of teaching at different universities, nearly all my colleagues insisted that Lee Harvey Oswald alone assassinated President Kennedy, even while the general public questioned such...
The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward Curtin
To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It was a common form of execution in the ancient world. It is generally associated with Rome’s killing...
The Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin
Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the...
