Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” — Socrates We now seem divided into the exasperated, the fearful and trembling, the threatened, the vindicated,... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The critical question is: When, or will, Trump’s voters realize that he isn’t delivering on his promises, that his health care and tax proposals wi... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ Let’s consider two quotes: “To interpret is to determine the force which gives sense to a thing.” Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy “To opini... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ I wonder if the battle lines drawn over Trump are deep into personalities to the point that we are missing the movement of intellectual history goin... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “I dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson We cannot read the future but we can read the present. Both the probabilities and possibilities that wha... Read more
The homeland security secretary has become the face of the intractable problem at the border, particularly for Republicans who see immigration attacks as a winning political strategy. [...]
Aides describe a process in which the president spends weeks reading drafts aloud, rejecting anything that smacks of Washington-speak. [...]
In his first State of the Union address since the G.O.P. took the lower chamber, the president will call for higher taxes on the wealthy and more social aid to the needy. [...]
Some earlier incidents had been classified as unexplained phenomena and handed over to a Pentagon task force charged with investigating U.F.O.s. [...]
After indefinitely postponing a modest student exhibit about the Russian equivalent to the Bauhaus, the school received protests from 750 academics. On Monday, it reinstated the show. [...]
The Trump administration called detainee art U.S. government property and halted most releases. Lawyers never mounted an intellectual property case. [...]
