Dispatches From Exile
At the junction of History, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture
Kristallnacht
Former California Governor, Terminator, and Conan the Barbarian offers a heartfelt and unsparing critique of the events in the Capital January 6, comparing it to Kristallnacht, which occurred in his native Austria in 1938....
Trump’s Gotterdammerung
Gotterdammerung[1]The last days of the Third Reich, taking its name from the end of Wagner's ‘Der Ring des Nibellungen.' The word means "Twilight of the Gods," and signals the end with chaos and destruction. Our understanding of historical narrative is not static....
CNN: This is the woman whose statue will replace that of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol
This is the woman whose statue will replace that of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol When Barbara Johns was just 16 years old, she led a walkout at her high school to protest poor and unequal school conditions. The moment is one that many historians believe helped...
The Consumer Citizen. Not.
I read an article this morning that considered a recent book The Consumer Citizen by Ethan Porter. The gist of Porter's argument is that Americans don't think like citizens but rather consumers. The difference is that citizenship implies responsibilities and...
Happy Thanksgiving! We Have a President Again
Joe Biden delivers remarks on the eve of Thanksgiving 2020. Biden Delivers Thanksgiving Address NBC News from Keith Cox on Vimeo.
Washington Post: Dolly Parton is the superhero America needs in 2020
Opinion | Dolly Parton is the superhero America needs in 2020 American audiences spent more than a decade worshiping at the big-screen altar of comic book characters. But the tumult of 2020 demanded a very different kind of superhero. You can't thump a pandemic into...
Book Excerpt: The Debilitating Effect of Fact Denial
Fact denial is the motive engine of the Trumpist movement in the United States. Many people believe Mr. Trump's incessant lying manifests a character flaw, or perhaps mental illness. Others think it represents a strategy; that Trump is playing "4-D chess." There is...
Daily Defiance: Robert Kennedy – Ripples of Hope
It is a revolutionary world that we all live in; and thus, as I have said in Latin America and Asia and in Europe and in my own country, the United States, it is the young people who must take the lead. Thus you, and your young compatriots everywhere have had thrust...
Daily Defiance: John Lewis – Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble
Congressman John Lewis speaking at The Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center's Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture series in Oakland.
NPR News
- Social Media Fueled Russian Protests Despite Government Attempts To Censor
- U.S. Tops 25 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
- 11 Miners Rescued In China After 2 Weeks Trapped Below Ground
- New Zealand Records 1st Suspected COVID-19 Community Case Since November
- Politics Chat: Biden To Sign More Executive Orders In First Full Week As President
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| ↑1 | The last days of the Third Reich, taking its name from the end of Wagner's ‘Der Ring des Nibellungen.' The word means "Twilight of the Gods," and signals the end with chaos and destruction. |
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