November 17, 2018

«The Trump Experiment: Liberals and Leftists Unhinged and Around the Bend» by Bill Martin

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Bill Martin writes at Counterpunch (excerpts): What is condemned now as “right-wing populism” is simply the populism of the working class,...
November 16, 2018

«The Christine Blasey Ford Episode: State Feminism, the Worthless “Left,” and Liberal Delusions» by Bill Martin

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Bill Martin writes at Counterpunch (excerpts): However well-intentioned and however much it is based on real grievances and oppressions, i...
November 13, 2018

Authority, empire, and the devolution of liberalism

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In the recent centennial commemoration of the end of the first “world war” (ie, the beginning of the second) French President Emmanuel Macro...
November 1, 2018

The heroic and the mundane

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‘The absolute is eternity. The relative is day-to-day existence. These are the two fundamental tropes of our lives. We hold the absolute at ...
October 28, 2018

The almost inescapable we

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‘To protect ourselves we use the most potent marker of distance we know, the line of demarcation that passes between “we” and “they.” The Na...
October 19, 2018

The teleological error of biography

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‘The issue with biography as a genre, and this is as true of autobiography as it is of the memoir, is that the author purports to be omnisci...
October 7, 2018

Equality in language only

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‘After writing this yesterday morning, I took Heidi and John to the nursery, where I was putting in a shift. The staff told me I could get o...