As you know if you have been a follower of this blog, I have withdrawn from the regular blogging of the past nearly five years in order to devote more of that time and energy to longer-form and more varied writing projects. The sad red earth is transforming into my writing website, where I will […]
A Second Look: What About Chas Freeman?
. Whenever they become topically relevant, I am going to offer a scond look at some older pieces still worth reading. Yesterday, the anti-semitic Mondoweiss blog reposted a recent speech by Chas Freeman at A National Interest discussion about “Israel’s fraying image.” I do not link to Mondoweiss, but you can find Freeman’s comments at his […]
Jazz Is: 44 – Leila Au Pays Du Carrousel
. By Anouar Brahem, on oud, from his CD Le Pas du Chat Noir. With François Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion. Sublime. Related articles Kingdom Animalia Zero Dark Thirty and Torture We Fuses Taking Stock, Taking a Leave
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
. This commentary first appeared in the Algemeiner on February 15. The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With the ironic, the distance is between what one says and what one means. With the disingenuous, the distance is between what […]
Eating Poetry (XLIV) – “After Experience Taught Me …”
. Offered without comment because all the words belong to Snodgrass. “After Experience Taught Me …” W. D. Snograss After experience taught me that all the ordinary Surroundings of social life are futile and vain; I’m going to show you something very Ugly: someday, it might save your life. Seeing that none of the things […]