Nature & Politics: The Waste Land
Across two evenings this week, we’ve been offered America’s future in a couple of visions. Neither of them offered the prime vitamin of bearable politics, the promise of good cheer and a better life
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Nature & Politics: Goodbye to Afghanistan
The day after the Florida primary, when all eyes were fixed in astonishment on the victorious Gov. Romney expressing his indifference to the sufferings
Nature & Politics: Newt Gingrich: Here He Comes Again
Newt Gingrich is a one-man, made-in-America melting pot. Here’s a committed devotee of tooth-and-claw capitalism, vultures perched on both shoulders,
Goodbye to 2011, Year of the Rabbit, Welcome 2012, Year of the Dragon
January 5 Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central,
Farewell to C.H.
I can’t count the times, down the years, that after some new outrage friends would call me and ask, “What happened to Christopher Hitchens?”–the
Obama Rebirthed as TR
When in doubt, wheel in Teddy Roosevelt. It’s in every Democratic president’s playbook. TR was president from 1901 to 1909. He was manly, ranching
Nature & Politics: The Iranian “Plot”
First, a simple rule: utter absurdity in allegations leveled by the US government is no bar to a deferential hearing in our nation’s major conduits of
Nature & Politics: Is Fascism Coming to America? And If So, Dressed as What?
But first, a simple rule for killers: If you are going to murder someone in the United States, don’t try to get the job done in Texas. Keep your captive
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Nature & Politics: Ready to Vote for Mitt Romney?
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