“Now what?”
One wing of ‘the war party’ has trounced the other. 4 NOVEMBER—A reader with a gift for cutting comment wrote in response to the column published in this space prior to yesterday’s elections: The U.S. election is very important to…
“Messily, corruptly, uncertainly, America goes to the polls.”
Hope again triumphs over experience. 1 NOVEMBER—Last spring, when it was already evident the ruling Republican Party was losing favor with American voters and Donald Trump’s star had begun to fade, the 47th president threatened to cancel the legislative elections…
“Among the Palestinians.”
My travels, encounters, and work in the West Bank as reounted with Patrick Baab, the distinguished German journalist. …. All Palestinian children know someone who has been arrested, they know someone who’s been imprisoned, someone who’s been shot, someone who’s…
“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…
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