“They say that Wagner’s music is much better than it sounds.”
— Mark Twain
Deep Thoughts by J. Comey (II)
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Deep Thoughts by J. Comey (I.)
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The Art of the -Gate
A different version of this article appeared in The New Republic on May 16th. And so it seems we do have Dick Nixon to kick around some more. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey, Jr., once again and in force, the shade with the five-o-clock shadow returned to haunt… Continue reading The Art of the -Gate
On Syria and Confusion…
This essay was first posted on Intellectual Takeout : We were warned. What would happen? Who could we trust? In the era of fake news, “alternative facts,” insult, and innuendo, when the time came…who was to be believed? In the fog of war–even of limited war and tactical skirmishes–the truth splinters into half-truths, conflicting conclusions, and incomplete… Continue reading On Syria and Confusion…
Letter to the Editor, New York Times: On “What Was Lenin Thinking?”
Dear Editor, In Tariq Ali’s April 3, 2017 editorial in the New York Times, Mr. Ali wove together a good story of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s Russian ascent to power. Yet Ali’s nearly hagiographic essay is not even really about Leninism but a simplified take on Marxism. Ali’s Leninism (Marxism) reads as a singular, coherent idea whose… Continue reading Letter to the Editor, New York Times: On “What Was Lenin Thinking?”
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HER HILL TO CLIMB: the second of two essays re-evaluating the 2016 presidential election
“Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949 [cont…]
