Edward curtin Much has been made of the September 9, 2023 simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of the claims of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who...

Edward Curtin “But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a...

Edward Curtin “This is slavery, not to speak one’s thoughts.” Euripides, The Phoenician Women Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down...

Edward Curtin Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to...

Edward Curtin I sit here in the silence of the awakening dawn’s stillness stunned by the realization that I exist.  I wonder why.  It is my birthday.  The first...

Edward Curtin Social psychosis is widespread.  In the words of the British psychiatrist, RD Laing, “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of...

Edward Curtin Sometimes you wake up from a dream to realize it is telling you to pay close attention to the depth of its message, especially when it is...

Edward Curtin I think it is generally accepted that the practice of medicine has changed radically over the past fifty or so years.  The medicalization and corporatization of life...

Edward Curtin “The technical achievement of advanced industrial society, and the effective manipulation of mental and material productivity have brought about a shift in the locus of mystification. . ....

Edward Curtin We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to...

Edward curtin By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles,...

Edward Curtin The world has been haunted by human violence since time immemorial. There are untold millions (billions?) of people all over the world who have been scarred by...

For my dear friend, Graeme MacQueen, the great 9/11 writer, who departed yesterday from life’s mystery to the other. When you are ready And the day dawns Remember how...

Edward Curtin It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in...

“All things transient are but a parable” Goethe, Faust These books are killing me he thought. The sun has risen, the bells toll eight. I’ve tried to learn before...

Edward curtin It is comical how easily one can be ignored for pointing out that new technology is dangerous and fetishistic.  So-called “smart” cell phones are a prime example. ...

Edward Curtin This new book by Graeme MacQueen (click here for a free e-copy) contains a collection of his articles and essays on the attacks of September 11, 2001, the...

Edward curtin On the short roof outside the bedroom window, two black vultures sit, staring in.  They have come to remind me of something.  I put my book down...

Edward Curtin My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him.  It’s an old truth that has...

“No one knows who will live in this [iron] cage in the future….” Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism I would prefer not to relay...