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The l-word
Read more: The l-wordAlarming swirls. Here is a problem with 21st-century existence: Living life in the rabble-roused moment, from urgency to emergency, lessens the significance of context; but context is what keeps life’s more intense moments from harrowing susceptibility to the anxieties that mass media urgency and emergency sensationally produce. If ever there…
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The tolling
Read more: The tollingThe Paris Commune: The first revolt. To question the meaning of a tolling bell, the poet John Donne once wrote, is to tempt a requiem. Yet financial analysts can’t resist, and August has left them aghast. Pessimists warm that bad loans and uncontainable debt are pushing Western economies toward an…
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The war gene
Read more: The war geneDetail from an American World War I recruiting poster. For two testosterone-driven millennia man’s ultimate rush was war. Imbalances, pride, greed and resentment were focused and exhausted through a single gross channel. That the war-makers were monarchs or revolutionaries mattered less than the production of conflict. The dismissal of composure…
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Hideous men
Read more: Hideous menHosni Mubarak: The necessary scapegoat. Ifirst saw a courtroom cage more than 30 years ago in Turin. Inside were Red Brigades founders Renato Curci and Alberto Franceschini. Carved on the gilded judge’s podium a few aisles away were the words “The law is equal for all.” Terrorist suspects Curci and…
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Decorum
Read more: DecorumDirksen, right, with Lyndon Johnson: Flexible at all times. Central to an American boyhood was learning how a bill became a law. Precious to the process was elementary school civics. Each morning we pledged allegiance to God and indivisibility, not knowing much about either but hoping for the best in…
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Pyro
Read more: PyroDetail from “Disastrous Daring” by Norman Rockwell. In early July, we read that Sunday would be the hottest day of the year, maybe even the hottest day ever, or at least since the dinosaurs, a wild and lengthy time our comic book daydreams invested in daily. I was busy tossing…
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