Monatsarchive: Mai 2018

My reading list is so long I don’t know when I’m going to get to this, but I really love the cover photo. It’s wonderful.

Guardian: [Texas Governor Greg Abbott]: “It’s impossible to describe the magnitude of evil here … we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who pose a risk to others.” To say it’s impossible to describe the magnitude … Weiterlesen →

Having drinks with co-workers a year ago I expressed my concern the US was becoming a dystopia out of my childhood science fiction, with people having lost sense of history, of citizenship, community, having lost their ability to even think … Weiterlesen →

‚A most terrible thing has happened. The King of Yugoslavia has been assassinated.’ ‘Oh, dear!’ she replied. ‘Did you know him?’ ‘No,’ I said. ‘Then why,’ she asked, ‘do you think it’s so terrible?’ Her question made me remember that … Weiterlesen →

She reflects on the “anti-war” meetings that she has attended back home and echoes Orwell’s famous attack on the vegetarians, fruit-juice drinkers, sandal wearers, “escaped Quakers,” and other radical cranks by remarking on the eccentric dress of the women at … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: From leading columnists to frontline politicians, people are grappling with how to create space to talk about something other than Mueller. Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, said while print and digital news media have … Weiterlesen →