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un-wreckable status system
The widespread image of a conformist America clinging to ladders of caste, through social class is oddly belied and reinforced by the symbols of prestige that wear out, decline in power, and are then replaced, starting a new cycle of … Continue reading
muggeridge…punch for compass
Its always fascinating how people can make surprising unexpected transformations in their lives that leave one reaching for a guide for the perplexed. A classic case was Malcolm Muggeridge the fiesty agnostic editor of Punch, the irreverent British magazine, who … Continue reading
down on highway 1865: all men are created different
The premise of the article that follows this introduction is at best on shaky terrain that somehow Abraham Lincoln was Jewish. Its ingenious and plausible ; Jewish in the sense that Harold Bloom worked laboriously through as some form of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Andrew Marvel, Daniel Day-Lewis, dave alvin, Harold Bloom, iris murdoch, Isaac M. Wise, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Twain, Salvador Litvak, Seth Grahame-Smith, Steven Spielberg Lincoln, tony kushner
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humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years
The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading
string game
We seem to always tragically misapply the lessons of the past. From Munich, to Vietnam, to Iraq to the Palestinians, to Iran. Nothing could be more naive than the notion that a fixed record of the past exists. History is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abu Mazan, abu mazen, Alex de Toqueville, Benny Katz, Hendrik Hertzberg, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Noam Chomsky, PA Authority Oslo Accords, Roger Tucker, Salaam Fayad, Stephen Lendman, uri avnery, Yuval Steinitz
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on ole’ boot hill
Where the difference between the good guys and the less good guys was sort of blurry. Boot Hill, Tombstone AZ and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The times were a changin’ and America was pushing westward. Like in Peckinpah’s … Continue reading
reason to believe or be deceived: who’s zoomin’ who
The struggle between generations is one of the most obvious constants.The 1960′s were not unique in this sense, but were unique in terms of radical dissent and cultural innovation; an extreme form of alienation transformed from the typical peripheral experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Penn, Bruce Eisner, California Nature Boys, Country Joe and the Fish, Country Joe MacDonald, Edmund Burke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Irving Kristol, John Cippolina, John Richter, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Roger Kimball, Samuel Beckett, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, William Burroughs
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