Daniel Burston: “It Can’t Happen Here”
Trump, Authoritarianism & American Politics
Marc Jampole: The Sedition of Mr. Trump
3rd debate score: cool Clinton wins, Wallace wins, Trump stumbles, sniffs & commits sedition. Newscasters and commentators who analyze the candidates’ performance and the public’s reaction immediately after presidential debates … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Donald Trump — The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
Americans are not offered major-party candidates who have opposing political ideologies or ideas. We are presented only with manufactured political personalities. We vote for the candidate who makes us “feel” … Continue reading
Jean Vanier: Becoming Human
Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. ― Every child, every … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
It is late as I write. 3 AM. This is when I feel them most keenly. The boys who didn’t come home from the war. You would think that such … Continue reading
Siegfried Sassoon: The Poet As Hero
You’ve heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you’ve asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness I’ve repented– My ecstasies changed to an ugly cry. You … Continue reading
Audio: Bob Dylan performs “The Times They Are A Changin'”
. Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to listen to the audio recording. . The Times They Are A Changin’ Come gather ’round people where ever … Continue reading
Michael Gregory: Dust
After they came down the dust was everywhere eyes ears and mouths inside and outside pulverized matter through every opening afflicting exposed tissue —sometimes mechanically: blocking … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: The Vermont Book of the Dead
Up here in Vermont, we’re sort of tucked away from the rest of the nation’s storms and upheavals. We read about the cops killing unarmed black men, of floods sweeping … Continue reading
Video: Homer’s “The Iliad” translated and read by Stanley Lombardo
. Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, reads from his translation of “The Iliad.” [Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to watch … Continue reading
Audio: W.H. Auden reads “The Shield of Achilles”
. W.H. Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” written in 1952, is the title poem of the collection that won the 1955 National Book Award. The poem is composed in alternating … Continue reading
Yusef Komunyakaa: Ode to the Maggot
Little
Master of earth, no one gets to heaven
Without going through you first.
Michael Moore: Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?
Friends, Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: After the Battle of Caporetto, 1917
I have come to rescue you -Benito Mussolini Mules on the road, troops mud-slogged, wet in their capes. Heavy guns drawn by tractors. Where the … Continue reading
