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David Brooks has done it again; castigated the left for the sins of the right. In a recent NYT op-ed he says “conservatives … feel drenched by a constant downpour of progressive sermonizing.” Feeling oppressed by “educated elites” drives the more extreme of them to want to tear down the system. Not so fast, sir…
Leave a CommentOpen in Browser You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows —Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues Ah, but when it comes…
2 CommentsThirteen hundred protest rallies flooded across every state and ebbed with barely a ripple of notice from the news networks. Easily a million people converged…
1 CommentThis first installment of a fable contains truth but not the whole truth about how a revolution (call it a counter-revolution if you insist, but…
Leave a Comment“I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they literally posted us right into it. Just another of the many unfair…
1 CommentThis month, more about my relationship with what I call digitalia, the assortment of devices and software and networks that have infiltrated my and your…
Leave a CommentAs I wrote this on Sunday, Joe Biden pulled out, immediately causing the commentariat to suck all the oxygen from the mediasphere. (NPR binged on…
Leave a CommentWhen I published “What Does ‘I support Israel’ Mean” ten days after Hamas assaulted Israel las October, I got some push-back. In fact, two subscribers…
1 CommentNamed after a third-century Persian prophet named Mani, Manicheism is an extreme form of dualistic gnosticism. It is gnostic because it promises salvation through the…
Leave a CommentDear Readers, Just a quickie to tide you over while I assemble sources and thoughts for the next newsletter, on the fragility of our stories.…
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