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Trumponomics - It is clear to me that there is a very simple strategy for what Trump is doing to get the US economy booming. I think it is really fair to say that this is Trump’s only strategy. All of the misbehavior and destructive actions going on in all all of his cabinet positions Continue reading "Trumponomics Simple Supply Demand" The Hive - Vanity Fair Sometimes a soaring rate of cockamamieness can leave us clueless about what to make of it and therefore unable to do anything about it.Those are the times when we seek out something—anything—with enough similarity to the new person or thing, to guess what we are dealing with. We see that Continue reading "The Nixon Question By GarryWills" Profiles February 14, 1994 Issue The Exile Returns Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn posed such a threat to the Soviet Politburo that it exiled him after the publication of “The Gulag Archipelago,” but for twenty years the West was also a reluctant audience for his uncompromising views. Now, having completed his historical opus, the author is going home, Continue reading " The Exile Returns Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn inAmerica" Neri Oxman, head of the Mediated Matter research group; Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, curator of the MIT Solve Arts and Culture Mentorship Prize; and MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle speak at the 2017 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City on September 18, 2017. https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/mm-grand-central-neri-2017-09-18/ This is a riveting essay about the wild land, wild animals and wild sky. Ms William’s point is that the wild does not belong in our world anymore, cause, well, we just don’t want it too -it doesn’t fit into our consumer-led way of seeing the world. Wonderfully inventive perspectives draw down our mighty problem Continue reading " Save The Whales, Screw The Shrimp JoyWilliams" Books November 6, 2017 Issue How Stalin Became Stalinist Puzzling out how the idealistic Soviet revolutionary came to preside over the bloodiest regime of his time. By Keith Gessen https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/how-stalin-became-stalinist Francois Mitterrand - Man of Action, Man of Words - Review of Philip Short’s, A Taste For Intrigue. R. L. Wallace November 8, 2015 Sitting up late one evening at Latche, I hear, all around me, talk of life and death, the origins of the world and the existence of God, the beyond and nothingness. Continue reading "Francois Mitterrand Man of Action, Man of Words Review of Philip Short’s, A Taste ForIntrigue." I have provided three pieces on Svetlana Alexievich's recent Nobel Prize in Literature award: 1) from The New Yorker 2) from The New York Review of Books 3) from the Nobel Organization Readers will note Ms Alexievich's simalarity to Alexandar Solzinitzen in chronicling their respective times. OCTOBER 8, 2015 Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Win BY MASHA Continue reading "Svetlana Alexievich The SovietUnion" I do not recall if Abbey studied zen. It appears to me that inherent in his craft is the idea that what he does not say is as important as what he does. Each sentence zigs and zags around, over and under so many norms of American society, and he does so with nary a Continue reading "Desert Solitaire EdwardAbbey" This piece was written by Wallace for the 2007 issue of "The Best American Essays" by Houghton Mifflin publishers. For anyone who reads that publication and or is interested in essays this piece reads as fresh today as it did then.  I think it’s unlikely that anyone is reading this as an introduction. Most of Continue reading "David Foster Wallace Deciderization 2007 A SpecialReport" photos: PHILIPPE MERLE/AFP/GETTYIMAGES The Atlantic Magazine Interview Writers Can Do Anything William T. Vollmann, author of Last Stories and Other Stories, explains why he works by an assassin's credo: "Nothing is true; all is permissible." 1.0k 225 JOE FASSLER JUL 16, 2014 By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite Continue reading "William T. Vollmann Nothing is true; all is permissible. " http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/review/McCulloch.t.html?_r=0 Susan Sontag - A Biography Daniel Schreiber Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer Daniel Schreiber has created a wonderfully written, well organized short biography on Susan Sontag. The book is fluid in pace and provides an ample well of historical context to enable the reader to see the many connections and subtleties of Continue reading "Susan Sontag A biography Review" It is not a surprise that literature aids all countries in showing a human face in the midst of hard-edge politics and ideology.This piece is from The New York Times. Follwing the NYT piece is aninterview with Putin and Tolstoy concerning the culture policy document. RLW CreditJames Hill for The New York Times By RACHEL Continue reading "In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as CulturalDiplomat" Bernard-Henri Levy: Poroshenko's visit with death in Kramatorsk before fateful meeting with Putin Feb. 15, 2015, 12:31 p.m. | Op-ed — by Bernard-Henri Lévy - fromKyiv Post - Ukraine’s leading English-language newspaper. A handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian presidential press service shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (2nd R), standing next to French Continue reading "The War In Ukraine A Frenchman s Eyewitness Report Bernard-HenriLevy" Apple’s $850M solar plant rockets it to first place among U.S. corporations Computerworld | Feb 12, 2015 4:06 AM PT Apple over the next year or so is expected to surpass Walmart as the largest corporate user of solar power. The company this week announced it will invest $850 million to build a solar power Continue reading "The Race AgainstCO2" For however strong you may be in respect of your army, it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532 Posted: 12/23/2014 9:34 am EST Updated: 12/24/2014 10:59 am EST - The Huffington Post. Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com It was the most thrilling bureaucratic document I've ever seen for just one reason: it was dated the 21st day of the month of Thermidor in the Year Six. Written in sepia ink on heavy paper, it recorded Continue reading "Turning a Writer s Focus to Power and thePlanet" This is uncommonly good advice for Americans to heed. ____________ Wrecking Russia’s economy could be a disaster for the west Angus Roxburgh It’s sheer folly to hope that the country is destabilised and Vladimir Putin overthrown. We’ve no idea what the outcome would be. Photograph: Maxim Marmur/AFP/Getty Images 'Bush understood nothing about Russia – from Continue reading "Base diplomacy on: The right thing todo" photo - getty images              The New Republic Magazine, a 100-year-old liberal publication was purchased recently (two years ago) by the young co-founder of Facebook ( worth $700 Million) who now wants to turn the company into a digital media company after initially announcing that he wanted to maintain the Continue reading "Michael Kinsley Weighs in on The New Republic Controversy" "One lesson we may have learned in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks is that no terrorist group can damage or destroy the United States and its Constitution. Only we can do that to ourselves."Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former national-security correspondent for The New York Times and author of Legacy of Ashes: Continue reading "Accept Disgrace Willingly LaoTsu" As David Brooks points out, this should be a defining time for the left, if not an era for the left. Yet what we get is a staggering win for the right. This whirlwind of motion and change is left in a dark caldron to be sealed for as long as people let others run Continue reading "Going Right When We Meant To GoLeft" Photograph by Gasper Tringale. (photo - Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune) Mr. Wills is the foremost literary journalist and thinker of our time. This article is a tribute to this iconoclast, one who has followed his own path to understanding America with intelligence, tenacity and grace. The American Mind The historian Garry Wills has written Continue reading "Garry Wills American Thinker Iconoclast" This is a well argued approach to building information-based economic structure in countries lacking a means of showing ownership of assets and rights. This was fundamental to Peru's advancement. Its an unlikely conclusion to draw without the dramatic example of Peru. It makes sense and if it works, its the right thing to do as opposed Continue reading "Creating a Level Playing Field for Arab Spring EconomicSuccess" This is a short interview of Christopher Hitchen's wife, Carol Blue, shortly after he passed away in 2011. She is a very gracious and talented woman who shows what a muse she must have been. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3619164.htm I attended Sam Hamill's reading last night at Elliot Bay Books on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Mr Hamill considers himself a zen Buddhist poet. The room was packed and Sam read from his new book of collected poems: Habitation: Collected Poems. His poems ranged from youth to present. His presentation was crisp, human and forceful. Continue reading "Sam Hamill Port TownsendSage" This is a recent post by the New Yorker Magazine. It is in further to the controversy surrounding Amazon's crude behavior to force publishers to do things the Amazon way and oh, to pay up. JULY 10, 2014 AN “UNBELIEVABLE” ENCOUNTER WITH AMAZON POSTED BY MALCOLM GLADWELL photo - towards point omega - rlw This book is a meditation held together by the flow of time; time says that one thing must come after another, we do not will this, it is. We can will to erect things, language, to look as though we have arrested the flow but it is a Continue reading "Point Omega DeLillo’s LiteraryMasterpiece" An excellent story from N + 1, showing some of the roots and political forces of the Ukraine conflict. Given the history of the Ukraine as it is told here, it is clear why simple violence can cut through the web of historical entanglement that refuses to get clear for a life in the present. Continue reading "Ukraine Summing Up And the Role of the AmericanPress" Just when you thought it was over. From : VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE - MAY 2014 In most hand-wringing debates about the future of newspapers, high-quality journalism is seen as doomed by the Internet. The author—V.F.’s newest columnist—begs to disagree. By Michael Kinsley BY CARL MYDANS/TIME LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES.THE WAY IT WAS Multiple editions, breaking Continue reading "The Front Page 2.0 By MichaelKinsley" THE ART OF SUFFERING by Jerry Brown When in 1976, I first met Ivan Illich at the Green Gulch Farm, he told me that his current focus was the study of economics. Then, I didn't understand that by the word economics, Illich meant a way of life where things are experienced only under assumptions of Continue reading "Ivan Illich Jerry Brown NaturalAffinities?" I find that Robert Bringhurst brings to the world a unique perspective of humans and their role in nature. He argues the idea that humans are merely part of nature and the idea that we are here to rule nature and to separate it from our lives will not only remove us from reality but Continue reading "Robert Bringhurst Language, Myth andPoetry" A very serious loss to our culture. Two articles on Hoffman - Open Letters Monthly and The New Yorker. Philip Seymour Hoffman By Open Letters Monthly In one of those wonderful old theater stories Laurence Olivier is said to have asked another Hoffman, Dustin, as the younger man voluntarily underwent physical abuse in order to Continue reading "Philip Seymour Hoffman" The link below is an interview that the Huffington Post did with Morris about his film " The Unknown Known". Morris's balance and insight are striking; one feels in the presence of an explorer of human nature itself. http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/errol-morris-donald-rumsefeld-documentary-the-unkown-known/527972ff02a7601ab2000177 http://www.errolmorris.com http://take21.seattlechannel.org/2013/12/20/the-final-interview-mayor-mike-mcginn/ Please view the above link to the video. The interview was conducted by the Seattle Channel which is a service of the City of Seattle. McGinn accomplished much in his time in office. The city is better off because of him. He represents the best of progressive leadership in America. McGinn says this so Continue reading "McGinn s Departure Is a Loss To the City ofSeattle" American culture and specifically Hollywood TV, is in the process of neutering the males of our society. Masculinity is boxed up and cauterised to fit into the restraints of a fantasy feminine world that is controlled through PC management. Camille Paglia is a woman who sees this clearly. Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense of Continue reading "Camille Paglia Making A Case For Real GenderDifferences" The Quiet American -Gaby Wood -The Observer,Saturday 9 September 2006 It's a magazine that runs 10,000-word articles on African states and the pension system, has almost no pictures and is published in black and white. So how does the New Yorker sell more than a million copies a week? Gaby Wood meets David Remnick, its Continue reading " The Quiet American DavidRemnick" I have reposted two items: 1) a fragment from an interview of Robinson where she describes the process of how American colleges evolved in the Midwest. 2) the complete essay Imagination Community from her book of Essays When I Was a Child I Read Books. The imaginative makeup of a writer is established by Continue reading "Marilynne Robinson Community vsTribalism" Privacy Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

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