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Chekhov, the military budget, and endless wars
by Bruce Altschuler 696 words After the 2024 election, the White House website described what it called Donald Trump’s “mandate,” beginning with “putting a stop to endless wars.” Nevertheless, on Feb. 28, the United States and Israel began an unprovoked war with Iran by bombing strikes that not only destroyed military targets but killed thousands…
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On the American Myth: Thanks, James Baldwin
by Kary Love 777 words Reading James Baldwin’s 1964 weighty but buoyant tome, “Nothing Personal,” struck like lightning as he shredded the myths that blind. Buoyant because it is replete with lightning strikes illuminating the coarse world created by myths, or lies; buoyant because it lights the way forward, in a scant 60 pages, to a…
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Facing war’s moral consequences
by Robert C. Koehler 935 words When is the last time the U.S. government, or a fragment thereof, has truly been held accountable – not merely legally or politically, but morally accountable – for an act of violence, for its addiction to violence? Ever? And what might that even mean? These are not questions I’ve ever even…