Dunkirk and Dreamtime
Note: This content contains spoilers. A few weeks ago, YR and RB invited me along to the Arclight for a…
Politics
John Hersey, Hiroshima
Seventy-one years ago, in August 1946, The New Yorker printed in its entirety John Hersey’s report on the effects of…
“Tolerance” is a Loaded Gun
C.W. is in town for a few days from Kosovo. He’s left the NGO he joined a few years ago:…
Still Life with Apocalypse and Antelope
A new study, assessing nearly fifty years of data, has concluded that sperm counts have tumbled 50% and more…
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Yesterday, in a single sitting, I read Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. It’s by far the most useful and engaging examination…
Robert Paul Wolff’s “Beyond Tolerance.”
I have a personal investment in tolerance: I belong to several groups and organizations which, in other parts of the…
Herbert Kohl, Teaching the “Unteachable.”
I knew of Herbert Kohl from his 1995 book Should We Burn Babar? I’d bought it in the mid-90s, solely because…
