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Dreaming About Going Back to the Land? I Did It. January 27, 2025
In April, my husband and I walked out to the sheep pasture with a .22 rifle.We found the lamb in the three-sided sheep shed, alone. Its mother had moved on by then with her healthy offspring, leaving behind this one, born two days earlier with a rigi...
We Also Need Democracy in Aesthetics January 21, 2025
In a new book entitled BACKBONE: Why American Populism Should Be Welcomed, Not Feared, author Karl Zinsmeister reports on middle Americans living all across the country, and why they want dramatic change in the direction of our country. He examines p...
Let It Fly, Low and High January 21, 2025
Tuesday will be seventy-five years since the death of George Orwell. Quite minor a date, but so massive a figure – patron saint of English decency, balletic navigator of twentieth-century tides, nominative source of a new word for ‘bad’ – that we can...
Bad Bunny Phoned Home January 14, 2025
Last month, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny was navigating a holiday-season flutter of activity, including a giveaway for disadvantaged youth in his hometown, when most of his country was plunged into darkness for several hours. The blackout threate...
Who Should We Emulate? January 13, 2025
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” This aphorism appears in Meditations, a collection of philosophical musings written by Marcus Aurelius, a 2nd century Roman emperor.Aurelius is considered one of the less tyrannical, ev...
Don’t Mourn the Fact-Checkers January 10, 2025
The Great American Vibe Shift, rapidly reshaping U.S. culture and politics, has landed at 1 Hacker Way—the gleaming Palo Alto headquarters of Meta. In a video this week, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to content polic...
LA Inferno January 10, 2025
Upon the hills in LA where dreams are sown every day,The fiery winds have fiercely blown.Torn so many from their home.A golden land, now wreathed in flame,Which government is to blame.Where whispers cry and scream Help us we’re all aflame.Homes and l...
'Landman' Is in Love With Myths January 01, 2025
Landman, the new drama series on Paramount+, opens with protagonist Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) tied to a chair and surrounded by members of a Mexican drug cartel. He’s trying to get them to sign away their land so that the oil company he works...
