Archive for the ‘Essays’ Category
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Bullshit Jobs — A Review
12 Jul 2019David Graeber’s important new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, begins with “a paradigmatic example” of a bullshit job as…
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Yes, There Were Anti-War Officers, Too
23 Feb 2018I was co-author of a recent opinion piece in the NY Times on-going Vietnam ’67 series. It begins like this:…
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Iceland: So Young, So Fair
23 Sep 2017The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or…
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Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
14 Jul 2017Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died…
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Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi
30 Jun 2017Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is…
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The Shock of the Anthropocene — What Hath Man Wrought?
13 Jun 2017I am very glad to welcome an old friend and fellow resister-of-bad-ideas, Michael Ferber, to the postings of All In…
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(Many ) A Day in Dublin with James Joyce
18 Apr 2017Ulysses is, well, only a Dublin day, yes, but seven years in the writing and possibly as long to appreciatively read it.…
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The Populist Explosion by John Judis
06 Mar 2017The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the…
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The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars
08 Jul 2016Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker”…
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The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life
14 Jun 2016Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write…
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Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without A County
21 Apr 2016I read A Man Without a Country back when it came out, 2005. Vonnegut died soon after, April, 2017, so…
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The Story of Stories: Why do We Tell Them? How Long Have We Told Them?
19 Feb 2016Not everyone can tell a gripping story but telling stories may be as integral to the evolution of Homo sapiens…
