Goya: “More of the Same” 1808, and Still the same, 2017
My abiding interest, since I left the US Navy after too many images of mayhem and suffering during the Vietnam …
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A Very Short Introduction to Fascism
The word fascist lost its adhesion to two particular strains of political movements decades ago and became a general term …
Goya’s Ghosts
Having carried some of the images of Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War in my mind from an early age, it …
James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a …
Movies: Documenting the Black Experience
Two documentary films from 2016 have made important splashes in the sea of movies available this year, not as big …
Anatomy of Fascism
The bibliographic essay at the end of Robert O Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism is some 27 pages long. At about …
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging — by Sebastian Junger
Although the word tribe has long been used in a more-or-less neutral way for a certain type of social organization, tribalism has lately …
The Populist Explosion by John Judis
The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the …
Learning — a Poem by William Stafford
Learning A piccolo played, then a drum. Feet began to come – a part of the music. Here comes a …
Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of …
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Somehow, in all my years of reading, Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, 1952, never entered my great river of books, even having …
Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence
Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …