Edward Curtin What is the truth, and where did it go? Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know “Shut your mouth,” said the wise old owl Business is business, and it’s a murder most foul Don’t worry,...

Kit Knightly Today marks 60 years since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, and the last of any worth or note. There is...

Edward Curtin Dear Bobby, As you know, I have supported your bid for the presidency even before you declared last spring.  I have admired and believed in you for...

Edward Curtin My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix, meaning root.  For I mean to show how the...

Edward Curtin It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film – a tour de force – and another to watch it. The former...

Edward Curtin “Method, Method, what do you want from me? You know that I have eaten of the fruit of the unconscious.” Jules Laforgue, Moralités légendaires The other day my wife...

Edward Curtin “A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning, ‘adding to the sum-total of human knowledge’; lay that burden...

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...