2019-03-18 22:30
This is what America looked like to me in my early years. This was my classroom.This is what America really is and always has been, a multi-ethnic, multicultural, polyglot entity, thou… Read More
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essays and photographs by Jon Anderson of Dark Horse Images, documentary work on the Caribbean
2019-03-18 21:04
I have always advocated Cosmopolitan values and I exemplify them as best I can; that is, I try to practice what I preach. Like my father before me, I have eclectic tastes, and multicul… Read More
2018-12-02 19:57
A recent spate of articles about Lena Dunham got me thinking about her (something that members of my generation almost never do) and her outsized cultural significance. However yo… Read More
2018-10-06 16:07
Senator Flake gave a talk, entitled “After the Deluge: A Rejection of American Politics and a Return to Principle,” at St Anselm this week, and I was struck by two things: First… Read More
2017-01-22 19:34
Richard Rorty’s Achieving our Country has been getting attention lately, because of his prediction that an authoritarian leader would eventually exploit the vacuum created by a fragmen… Read More
2016-09-17 19:25
Marx famously wrote, “A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding i… Read More
2016-06-03 19:14
Lately my newsfeed has been full of threads expressing outrage over the unfortunate death of Harambe, with everyone howling for the blood of the mother whose child slipped into the enclosure… Read More
2013-03-23 19:02
El modelo de desarrollo de cada civilización emana de los recursos de la tierra. Si no fuera por el humilde bacalao, la industria pescadora del noreste de los Estados Unidos no se hab… Read More
2013-03-21 19:14
2012-11-28 23:40
“My dear Arjuna, O son of Prtha, behold now My opulences”The Bhagavad Gita, 11: 5Stuart Kauffman has been engineering a new scientific paradigm which promises to wed biology and… Read More
2012-11-03 15:51
Speed is the triumph of effect over cause, the triumph of instantaneity over time as depth, the triumph of the surface and pure objectality over the profundity of desire. Speed creates… Read More
2012-10-21 18:44
I just read Michael Chabon’s well known essay in defense of genre fiction, “Trickster in a Suit of Lights: Thoughts on the Modern Short Story.” Aside from his refreshing di… Read More
2012-07-27 22:31
Dar un paseo por la ciudad colonial es viajar a través del tiempo igual que el espacio. Uno pisa el pavimento que pisaron los conquistadores, el pavimento que cubre las pistas hechas… Read More
2012-04-24 04:36
When the Spanish assaulted the New World they made use of the indios who troubled to learn the language of these strangers in a strange land and worked as their translators. The Spanish call… Read More
2012-03-19 22:01
"hoy nos cuenta tus glorias olvidadasla brisa que solloza en tus escombros."-- Salomé UreñaLa ciudad colonial de Santo Domingo de Guzmán era el urbanismo ejemplar del Nu… Read More
2011-07-21 20:24
Such facile rhetoric, but so ubiquitous, so common that one never stops to question it. Keep it simple and keep it coming. Isnt that just what Hitler recommended in Mein Kampf? And it has… Read More
2011-07-13 19:56
Despite the heat, I customarily sat outside everyday in the courtyard to get away from the arctic air conditioning and dreary ambience of institutional housing. There were two courtyards, o… Read More
2008-12-03 15:25
Where the state cannot guarantee the safety of its citizenry, so everyone goes about armed, a people at war with itself.Where education is in such low esteem that the poor who attend school… Read More
2007-01-22 15:37
I have been hacking away at this thing as you can see. The basic template for this blog is called scribe. I like the paper image but the background was a bit too staid for my taste, and a… Read More
2007-01-20 14:36
The log entry below is my first experiment of its kind in hacking this template and rearranging matters so that i can play with combining text and imagery in more interesting ways. What I… Read More
2007-01-20 03:27
"an old brujo was asked about the nature of his practice, and he said, "Well, the white people have their way, but this is the way of black people."class='widget Image' img alt='' height='89… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
We are all polymaths by nature, though few of us ever develop all our faculties. We are compelled to ignore or rank all our interests in favor of one overarching endeavor which, we are told… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
What is it about Sarah Vowell that makes me cringe when I hear her voice scratching like chalk across the board? Is it the peculiar dissonance created by her little-girl, monotonous na… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Watching the news on TV is to subject oneself to a constant stream of fear mongering. Ebola is here! Illegal Immigrants are threatening our Border! Black people are rising up in Ferguson! Te… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Wonder is the basis of worshipThomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (I,10)You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded . . .The stars died so that you could… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By blood we live, the hot, the cold,To ravage and redeem the world:There is no bloodless myth will hold.Geoffrey Hill, Genesis.The thing that defines humanity and separates it from the host… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Naming is a faulty business, and not just because words are arbitrary signifiers. When it comes to naming, the intelligence community – a phrase every bit as ironic if not purely… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“the fate of our times is characterized . . . by the disenchantment of the world.” Max Weber, Science as a Vocation It may be that all journeys are circular and th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Marco Rubio’s comments regarding science and theology causes one to wonder about his qualifications for th… Read More
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