Time Capsule, Wyoming cabin

I've made a  time capsule in the Wyoming cabin, waiting out the early April snows here. The capsule contains, to date, the following:

1. Cynthia Ozick's novel, "The Cannibal Galaxy" (Knopf, 1983), a propetic novel which deserves a new reading in the Age of Trump, contains the word schlock more than once, as well as several other yiddishisms connotating vulgar, trashy, lazy habits of mind that wind up infecting our nation's body politic. The protagonist, a boy named Brill, a Parisian Jew hidden from the Nazi's by Catholic nuns, comes to America as a man and establishes a school in the heartland. The curriculum is noble: to teach the epitome of both high European culture and Jewish tradition. Everyone, however, including Brill, is literally and figuratively stuck in the middle. One needs to read to the end to see if there's an escape.

2. A copy of the magazine The Progressive (June 2010) with a cover headline, "Chomsky's Nightmare: Is Facism Coming to America?"

3. The New York Times, Sunday March 26, 2017

(to be continued)