It says more about toxic US domestic politics than the realities of international relations The Russian invasion of Ukraine may very well cause the most casualties from armed conflict that Europe has seen since World War II. The first professional casualty of this war, which occurred well before the tanks rolled over the border, was…
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The Devil’s Pact: Putin, the Alt-Right, and the Long Shadow of History
Published in BillMoyers.com The Russian president’s claims of “historical victimhood” in World War II try to justify his country’s present-day destructive behavior. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera, The Book of…
Must They Have So Little Dignity?
Published in BillMoyers.com Reince Priebus’ fall is a sad metaphor for Trump’s America. Must They Have So Little Dignity? Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon is considered one of the great political novels of the last century, but it is also very puzzling. Why does Rubashov, the loyal old Bolshevik, confess to capital crimes he did not commit?…
The Trump Era: No One Can Stay Above the Fray
shed in Moyers & Company (link to article) Trump debases the country, and we will all have to get our hands dirty. Shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture without motion. — T.S. ELIOT, THE HOLLOW MEN (1925) It has been six years since I last saw Capitol Hill and the Republican Party in the rearview…