Begin Again – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. Though he primarily writes of religion …
Category Archives: Essays
James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …
Bullshit Jobs — A Review
David Graeber’s important new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, begins with “a paradigmatic example” of a bullshit job as …
Yes, There Were Anti-War Officers, Too
I was co-author of a recent opinion piece in the NY Times on-going Vietnam ’67 series. It begins like this: …
Iceland: So Young, So Fair
The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or …
Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died …
Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is …
The Shock of the Anthropocene — What Hath Man Wrought?
I am very glad to welcome an old friend and fellow resister-of-bad-ideas, Michael Ferber, to the postings of All In …
(Many ) A Day in Dublin with James Joyce
Ulysses is, well, only a Dublin day, yes, but seven years in the writing and possibly as long to appreciatively read it. …
The Populist Explosion by John Judis
The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the …
The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars
Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker” …
The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life
Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write …