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Luis: NYT opinion piece supports Trumps response on the Khashoggi murder by prioritizing geopolitical investments in middle east even as some senators from both parties demand moral clarification on this fundamental violation of human rights. All of this after the CIA director revealed the existence of a wiretapped call betweenContinue Reading

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Two pieces from the LARB.  Both trace the evolution, or better devolution of American character and society.  The seeds have long been there and have been manifested in numerous ways.  Darkness on the Edge of America looks at the work of Edward Hopper, a documentary painter if there ever wasContinue Reading

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Following on the article Luis posted the divergence of identity between PC language and the values it identifies, this tale strikes my as an inversion what is elaborated in the first.   In this instance, words are instrumentalized into a PC language, — a Politically Centrist vocabulary; its faithfulness to centrism,Continue Reading

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Concerning the political power of words and the ramifications both positive and negative…..Doug Saunders in the Globe reveals stats that show that 80% of Americans believe the growing culture of political correctness and its terminology is a real problem nationwide.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-culture-war-has-been-won-so-now-we-fight-about-words/ Stephanie Nolen writes a piece in the Globe about theContinue Reading

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Amazing pic. The yearning in this photograph is palpable, but what is it?  I don’t mean there should be a simple, one-size fits all answer.  Nor is this about one thing, like race or class.  The article doesn’t do the complex stakes that leap out of the picture justice. BetterContinue Reading

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A new book by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking sheds light on the background and current uses of subversive propaganda via social media. An early example of  ‘fake news’ was used during WW2  by Germany via radio broadcast to British citizens featuring a commentator known as Lord Haw-Haw. NPRContinue Reading

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The author of a book review at the link below is Verlyn Klinkenborg who is a non fiction writer who has published widely on the subject of farming. He teaches creative writing at Yale and owns a small farm in upstate New York. He reviews four recent books focusing onContinue Reading