Welcome! Each year at year’s end I write short-ish summaries of the books I read over the year. A small public service, because the society that reads together increases its chances of resisting fascism. Right? In this year’s reading I came upon this story: A grandfather tells his granddaughter that inside every human there areContinue reading “My 2024 Book List”
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Observance: Totalitarian regimes use words to mean their opposite
December 15, 2024 I have intended to use this space to make Observances, mostly in prose, about the intersections between my own personal, lived experience, close to home, and the politics of the moment as I see it. But with some really great sources that echo what I would have to say politically (and sayContinue reading “Observance: Totalitarian regimes use words to mean their opposite”
Observance: Letter to a MAGA Friend
22 November 2024 Since the Trump election, the zeitgeist in my media-sphere* — call it the liberal media if you have to – is all about taking-a-long-hard-look-at-ourselves-as-a-nation. There is the very real dread and the democratic soul-searching and the data-mining and poll-questioning, and the finger-pointing and the circular firing squads and the group therapy sessions,Continue reading “Observance: Letter to a MAGA Friend”
My Books of 2023
In keeping with the end of year tradition, here, just a week or so overdue, is the list of books I read or listened to, cover to cover, in 2023… “Let us put it into context. This was the beginning of the Old Wild West Days. In most ways it was a retrogression. The lawlessnessContinue reading “My Books of 2023”
The Watering Hole :: Jeff Conant 