I’ve always wanted to live under a dictatorship, haven’t you?
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The centuries old educational model--the university as final intellectual destination--as rearranged by the pandemic:
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'They did not read Darwin, much preferring the Marquis de Sade', to paraphrase Hannah Arendt writing about the rise of Nazism in The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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How do you feel this morning?
I feel blah but don't want to speak of it, the blahness I feel.
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The president, whose face is now the shade of a newly-minted Cheetoh, makes a good argument for eating junk food:
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The White House press release yesterday on the cancellation of VP Mike Pence's political rallies in Florida and Arizona cited, "an abundance of caution."
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The president's humor is of the self-pitying variety, in which the joke is not only not funny it is a self-reflective complaint of mistreatment at the hands of all those he claims mean to do him harm.
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We live in a time when we are constantly asking ourselves, "did that just happen?" There's a sense of us drawing together, that the rich and the poor among us are one people and both are causalities of war.
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A certain ideology becomes epidemiological, as is currently the case in the USA, when a worldview is wrapped in wads of ten dollar bills that grow exponentially through hot and cold wars to sums that are unimaginable,
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13% of the total population is purple.
Of this 13%, 11% are literate, that is, able to read.
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Citizenship is a kind of real estate, the space you and I occupy for which we are responsible and through which we express and share our private and public lives.
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God doesn't really protect drunks; that's a happy myth, a leftover fairy tale from a time when the bars stayed open until 2 am.
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