“Trump’s war with the ‘liberal’ press.”
Are there any innnocents in this fight? To our readers. We apologize for our silence lately. No sooner did we return from our summer lectures in Switzerland (published here and here) than we succumbed to bouts of Covid. We’re now…
“‘Terrorism,’ this insidious word.”
John Whitbeck on power and the manipulation of language. Summer Readings. 25 September—Of all the epithets power deploys to condemn, demonize, or ostracize those who question or oppose its late-imperial hegemony, a couple have been prominently in vogue for some…
“What are the sources of our dignity?”
‘Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right.’ 19 September—The theme of this year’s Mut zur Ethik conference, a series of lectures held each summer in Zürich’s environs, was “Living in Dignity.” Given the world we see out…
“Peace ‘between the sword and the neck.’”
Dignity in Palestine. Summer Readings. We continue our Summer Readings with the first of two lectures delivered at this year’s Mut zur Ethik conference in German-speaking Switzerland. — P. L. 14 SEPTEMBER—I write from the Swiss village of Bazenheid, 60…
“The Russians treated them humanely. Their own command didn’t.”
Ukrainian POWs speak. Guy Mettan is in the business of turning orthodoxies upside down. His method has always impressed us as superbly effective. He eschews slant or any kind of polemic in favor of what we may call “pane of…
“‘Russia is running out of steam.’ Really?”
The Ukraine war as seen from Kursk. Summer readings. The New York Times just ran a pair of especially preposterous pieces concerning the state of the war the West wages, via Ukraine, against the Russian Federation. It seems John Ratcliffe, the…
Patrick Lawrence: The US Seeing Itself & Others as They Are
Imagine the consequences for the empire’s managers were Americans to understand others and have some grasp of how they look upon the world. The other night, I watched a documentary called Coup 53, a brilliant treatment of the Anglo–American operation that…
“A certain schizophrenia.”
Notes on the D.S.A. 7 AUGUST—The Democratic Socialists of America have been feeling their oats of late, what with Zohran Mamdani’s election to the mayoralty of New York last year and a succession of D.S.A. victories in primaries across the…
“‘The old life done.’”
A brief note to our readers. 2 August—We try hard at The Floutist to stay current, to publish often, and offer our readers insights and perspectives not found elsewhere. These past days it has been hard to keep up with our own…
“Graham Platner and the machines of power.”
The Floutist responds to its readers. 16 JULY—Many readers, scores, responded with exceptional insight to the piece we published after Graham Platner was forced to withdraw from the contest for a Maine Senate seat. We read the comment thread carefully,…
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