Sunday, October 30, 2022

Atheist Pilgrim

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  Mont St. Michel Took the long country walk up to Mont St. Michel, that ancient abbey surrounded by water, built on a rock island on the n...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Soviet Noir

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 “ Gorky Park” by Martin Cruz Smith, 1982 It's the early '70s, Brezhnev time. 3 bodies are found in Moscow's central Gorky Par...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Similarities Abound

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  " The Black Hundred – The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia” by Walter Laqueur, 1993 Laqueur is a liberal historian focused on the...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Anti-Fascist Series #10: Classical View

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  “Fascism – What It is and How to Fight It” by Leon Trotsky, 1930-1940 This short pamphlet put out by Pathfinder Press contradicts all t...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Walking Before Midnight

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  “A Philosophy of Walking” by Frederic Gros, 2015 Do we really need a ‘philosophy of walking?’   If you were hoping for a somewhat well-g...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Pessimistic Utopianism?

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  “Hothouse Utopia – Dialectics Facing Unsavable Futures” by Ryan Gunderson, 2021 This book is influenced by Frankfurt School ‘Western’ Ma...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Wired Again

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  “We Own This City ,” 6 episode limited series produced by David Simon, 2022 This series is a follow-up to “ The Wire,” an earlier groun...

Tongue in Speak

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  Observations ·         Ultra-rightist OathKeepers’ maximum leader Stuart Rhodes graduated from Yale Law.   Figures. I guess you could call...