B.B. King and Joan Baez at Sing Sing
29/07/2015
It has commercials, but here you get to see how it was to go up the Hudson, and visit prisoners in 1974. Axé.
Quatre jours de paix
28/07/2015
Or one week of goodness, although I am hoping to get three. I had four days of peaceful writing at home, and four days of excellent work at a summer institute. Otherwise this summer has had more problems and far less calm than had been foreseen or planned. Now I am going on three weeks … More Quatre jours de paix
Perry Anderson
27/07/2015
Journalists, exiles, editors, underground conspirators, this was by definition an intelligentsia without positions or place in the institutions of the state. Read all about it. Axé.
Rezar y rezar
26/07/2015
Una piedra en el camino / me enseñó que mi destino / era rodar y rodar / rodar y rodar / rodar y rodar… That is from the most hilariously machista and probably gun-slinging song that could exist, but look what a beautiful voice Vicente Fernández had when he was young. The song comes to me … More Rezar y rezar
Keywords for the modern subject
21/07/2015
I am interested in this piece. Axé.
Thomas Brudholm
19/07/2015
Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a … More Thomas Brudholm
New Orleans Then
19/07/2015
“The campaign on Dryades was calculated to start just before Easter because that’s when people bought lots of clothes,” Elie said. Black students from Xavier, Southern University of New Orleans and Dillard, along with a few white students from Tulane and University of New Orleans, joined picketers on Dryades. In mid-1960, former Xavier student-body head … More New Orleans Then
Bruce Cockburn
14/07/2015
This is The trouble with normal, a 1981 song lyric I did not know. I notice that Cockburn had the same insight I did, then. Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it’s repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic … More Bruce Cockburn
Teresa Buchanan
14/07/2015
Read about her, about Louisiana, and about LSU. Axé.
A line
13/07/2015
This is my line in the sand: I can read online for work if I must — even long documents –, and I can read short news articles, but I am not interested in reading books or magazines online for pleasure. Axé.
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