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Vacation Reading

May 26, 2017 Edward Curtin

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity: so advised Thoreau more than a century ago. It’s the kind of advice rarely heeded, then or…

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Sorry, You’re Not Invited

May 21, 2017 Edward Curtin

When I woke up yesterday and looked in the mirror, I said to my image, “Man, you are a pathetic…

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Escaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness

May 17, 2017 Edward Curtin

“Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”…

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To Tell the Truth

May 5, 2017 Edward Curtin

My name is Robert McGee, I lied through my teeth Just as I was told. Good boy, Sixteen year old…

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Marching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science

April 29, 2017 Edward Curtin

“In our society those who have best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing…

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Trump Comes In From The Cold – Gets Media and Political Respect

April 7, 2017 Edward Curtin

You have to love the twisted system of propaganda and moral hypocrisy that reigns in the United States today. For…

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

April 4, 2017 Edward Curtin

“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 Edward Curtin

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 Edward Curtin

“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 Edward Curtin

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

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