Liberal Currents

Way back on June 15th, I sent David M. Perry a PDF of The Reconstruction Papers, on the off chance he'd have the opportunity to write about it in some way.

Two months later, the Minnesota Star Tribune<...

Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly. 

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“Bulldozers have started work around Big Bend National Park in Texas amid a battle over the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote national parks,”

It is all too easy to get sucked into the numbers, the analysis of atrocity, in the hope to understand it, and to lose sight of the quality of its lived experience.

I understand, for example, the tendency to focus on the enormous number of dead produced by the Soviet Union in the period of time that saw the collectivization of its agriculture and resulting mass famine, ...