No one will ever be able to prove that Donald Trump, when he fell under a shooter’s bullets that not-so-fateful day in Butler, Pennsylvania, popped a Halloween blood pellet on his right ear, then to return to his feet to shake his fist at a presumed assassin with red liquid streaming across his face and...
Read MoreDeprivation and Destruction in the Spirit of ‘73
It all ends up in salt water. The tea in 1773 Boston’s harbor, the Russian natural gas in 2022’s Baltic Sea. Of course, the tea would have drifted away and eventually sunk, while the gas bubbled to the surface and from there dissipated into the atmosphere, but either way, nobody got to buy, much less...
Read MoreNuking the Public Mind
This is not about the suppression of First-Amendment free-speech rights and, as far as the pandemic itself is concerned, this is not about how many people got infected, nor how sick they got, nor whether they died or recovered. This is about the governmental, institutional, and the individual responses manifested in the campaign to limit...
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Even as New Orleans dismantles and sequesters the 1877 statue of Robert E. Lee adorning the center of “Lee Circle” in New Orleans, ground is being broken in London’s Victoria Tower Gardens Park for a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Memorials come, memorials go. In the former Soviet Union, statues of Stalin and...
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