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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…
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The real American Revolution
by Tom H. Hastings 515 words As someone who studies and tries to practice nonviolence, it is frankly tiresome to hear the endless refrains of triumphalism when honoring the American Revolution as a violent chapter in human history. John Adams was there. His conclusion, as a participant and eyewitness, was that the period of at least…