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ready for an american lenin?
Are we ready for an American Lenin? Or a Mao? Or even a Gandhi? Will “make love not war” ever give way to “make revolution not love”; until then the odds are doubtful… Many people assert that a revolutionary situation … Continue reading
humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years
The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading
i thought i saw saint augustine
Jerusalem Syndrome….Jerusalem. Is it something in the water. An untraceable ingredient from an underground well? There is something. Jerusalem has always evoked messianic symbolism and exerted a seemingly magnetic attraction for people awaiting the Messiah, those who feel they can … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Destruction of the Second Temple, Gershom Salomon, Gogol Russian writer, Ivri Lider, Ivri Lider & Mookie, Jerusalem Syndrome, Louis Theroux, Maimonides, Maimonides Temple Mount, Michael Moore, Michael Moore Jerusalem Syndrome, Moshe Dayan Temple Mount, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Chaim Richman, rabbi ovadia yosef, Shlomo Amar, Six Day War Jerusalem, Stendhal Syndrome, Temple Institute, Temple Institute Menorah, Temple Mount Faithful, The Temple Mount Jerusalem, Vadim Rabinovitch, Yona Metzger
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triple A cowboys under review
…and who say institutional traders, stock traders locked into the world of the desk have no sense of humor. Its an arcane little world that leftist populism wants to take one by one and lynch from the nearest sturdy branch. … Continue reading
if our memory serves us well
The social delinquent and adolescent rebel as artistic archetype. As long as one keeps rebelling, raging, one guarantees they can never change and grow old. Grow into maturity. It became one of the pathologies of the romantic movement, to die … Continue reading
forward to the past
Does authenticity have anything to do with the truth or are we conflating an idealized sense of self with a public perception of populism? Today, the mantra among the political pundits is that authenticity serves as the means to gain … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged american gothic, Andrew Potter, Grant Wood American Gothic, harry truman turnip day, Helen Levitt photography, Jared Diamond, joe klein, marshall brain, martin ford, Michael Ferguson, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Ron Paul
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innocently traipsing across the great divide
The creepiest aspects of normalcy are the one’s we don’t think about, that we take for granted, that slip under our radar and end up drawing them into our web complete with their structural cultural pattern, their mechanisms of reinforcement, … Continue reading
muckrakers and culture stakers
The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, john collier, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, lincoln steffens, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Peter Max, the muckrakers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, yvelyne wood
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