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The Silent Cries of Hiding Children: Fifty Years After MLK’s Riverside Church Speech

April 4, 2017 ejcurtin

“In the cellar, darkness prevails day and night, and even when we are carrying a lighted candle, we see shadows…

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No Replays Next Time

March 26, 2017 ejcurtin

There are no special cases any more, All are implicated in the war That never ended. The reels roll On…

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The Killers

March 24, 2017 ejcurtin

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” D. H. Lawrence, Studies…

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Snow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd

March 20, 2017 ejcurtin

Few people at this hour – and I refer to the time before the breaking out of this most grim…

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After Reading Li Po

February 18, 2017 ejcurtin

Learning to do nothing I learned learning Wasn’t nothing but Something I was doing. So I decided to stop Learning,…

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Without Poetry We are Dead: With It We Die Living

February 12, 2017 ejcurtin

“The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt…

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Symbolic Seduction: Women’s Rights, Partisan Politics, Ethnocentrism and “American Narcissism”

February 2, 2017 ejcurtin

In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a…

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Dream Lovers

January 28, 2017 ejcurtin

  At first an athlete in his father’s image, Next a lawyer on his father’s trail, Then a priest after…

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A Valiant Verbal Warrior Demythologizes the CIA

January 22, 2017 ejcurtin

“Once there is a suspicion that a religion is a myth, its power has gone.” Alan Watts, The Wisdom of…

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A Day of Service is a Disservice to the Truth of MLK’s Life, Death, and Witness

January 14, 2017 ejcurtin

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”  MLK   As Martin Luther King’s…

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