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What happened when I put “total” back in “totalitarianism”
Feeling a bit foolish. When I came to the section on totalitarianism in my world history tome, I had to smack myself on the head. I’d never actually considered that the primary word in totalitarianism was “total.” Right now we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Journalism, MAGA, News media, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged A History of the Modern World, authoritarianism, BlueSky, CDC, constitutional government, democratic republic, Donald Trump, fascism, Fox News, Jamelle Bouie, Jewish science, Kennedy Center, National Guardsman, National Institutes of Health, Nazi science, New York Post, simulacra, Smithsonian, totalitarianism, Trump's face banners
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How can we confront this bizarre, destructive SCOTUS?
One word answer: Bedazzled. I had a lot of gun control ideas along this line but the New York State Legislature beat me to it — at amazing speed. Still, I want to offer the Bedazzled lesson as lanolin* for … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Corruption, Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, Judiciary, Law, suits and order, Politics, Pro choice, The Facts of Life, The god problem, voting and voting rights, War on women
Tagged Article I of the Constitution, Bedazzled, constitutional crisis, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Guarantee Clause, Jamelle Bouie, lanolin, Peter Cook, Supreme Court
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What’s a pathological optimist to do when all about her is despair?
I just read today’s New York Times opinion section, after which I dipped into the readers’ comments, as I always do. Despair, hopelessness, monumental depression — about us, the United States. Secession, too, had its proponents among my fellow readers, … Continue reading
Posted in Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged "Pushkin Hills", Andrey Kurkov, Brown v Topeka, Chris Murphy, Jamelle Bouie, James Wood, Michelle Cottle, Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, Paul Krugman, secession, Sergei Dovlatov, The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town
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