This country looks like one that’s about to learn some things the hard way. Riffing on Sam’s post about Rome… We all got taught that Rome fell when the barbarians sacked Rome. […]
The Fall of Rome, pt 2
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Bernie’s party
Is It Bernie’s Party Now? – The ultimate outsider took over a splintered party from within. Sound familiar? I love this, mostly because the anti-Sanders view point in it comes consistently from […]
Pete Buttigieg: new packaging for the same old shit
Michael Harriot at The Root just took Mayor Pete to the mat. “Kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them,” Buttigieg explained whitely, when he was running […]
Indian summer in the industrial north: Lex Veritas
An urban pastoral. The second half of August and early September were unseasonably chill and dreary. It felt like we’d be battening down sooner rather than later. Would all those peaches on […]
White America still pretending slavery didn’t happen
To be forgiven, one must first repent. Plantations are talking more about slavery — and grappling with visitors who talk back CHARLOTTESVILLE — A Monticello tour guide was explaining how enslaved people […]
Why aren’t we marching in the streets? Lex Veritas…
«««»»» What we could do, should do and will do are unfortunately different. I’m not surprised that the S. Koreans forced a president out through mass demonstration. When I lived there there […]
Lex Veritas: we interfere in global politics, now the globe interferes in ours
«««»»» Yesterday I overheard a long NPR segment on Russia’s digital interference in US politics. This was a few hours after I read an article about how a state department employee was […]
Our curious cyber offensive against Russia
We’re effectively talking about starting a war the president doesn’t know about because everyone decided not to tell him. So the NYT report about the US inserting offensive cyber weapons into Russian […]
Trump’s America: a third-world country in an ill-fitting suit
As we gear up for trade war with a major creditor and producer of many consumer goods, Rolling Stone looks at how China is treating North Carolina like the developing world. American […]
A case for the Humanities
Arguing for well-rounded, well-educated human beings in the US is probably as fruitless as arguing for the Humanities. And for the same reasons. Besides the obvious benefit of agitating evangelical conservatives with […]
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