Category: Cultural analysis
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Reflection: Oh, no. Not again (2025)
In desperation and anger, people were willing to try something new–like Mussolini’s Blackshirts, who marched into Rome in October of that year.
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Reflection: Moving on
“Everybody’s moving, if they’re not already there. Everybody’s got to move somewhere.” –Bob Dylan The leaves are leaving. The army of leaves that have fed the tree all summer now deserts, one by one, floating down in their dried uniforms to the ground. Soon whole regiments will be abandoning their posts, borne away by late…
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Memoir: first experiences with Punk (1976)
Last Saturday, as authoritarians in charge continued steering society over the guardrails and into the ditch of savagery and greed, the 20th annual Riotfest took place in Douglass Park, Chicago. The three-day festival features musical acts inspired by and spawned during the Punk rock era, when I was a youngster. It celebrates an attitude of…
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Presidential election analysis: a clash of beliefs around our governance (2024)
Next Tuesday’s election will manifest a divergence of belief around our national government–not belief in the value of specific policies, but belief in the established norms and institutions of our government themselves, in whether the game of republican democracy should even continue. One side more-or-less still believes in equality of persons before the law, accountability,…
The Wikiness 