Singapore political architect Lee Kwan Yew and his offhand critic, the American global anthropologist Clifford Geertz, needed to talk. About colonialism, democracy, culture. . . First of two essays on the possible city-state of the future.
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Cloistered near Crestone, stranger in a strange land, sleeping or perhaps not, Beverly Donofrio suddenly feels “a weight on the mattress, a tug at the sheet.” Then, in the words of her memoir, “The rapist hovers over my bed, and I wake myself screaming.” Her cell-size cabin at Nada, a Carmelite Catholic hermitage, is isolated.
In search of my Appalachian gene, lite. To baby-boomer outsiders, “Deliverance” was a scary movie, but then so was “The Milagro Beanfield War.”
self photo by larry calloway, remote graphcs by colleen rae
Thoughts on the timely death of Hunter S. Thompson. With reference to Hemingway and some Christian Republican political figures.
Ernst Mayr said it: Evolution is as much of a fact as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.
George Lakoff, the Berkeley professor who has become a liberal political guru, was recognized early by The Santa Fe Institute, known for its work in chaos theory. It figures.
A new book on the Texas Rangers during the bloody decade of the Mexican Revolution recollected my strange first encounter with Reies Lopez Tijerina.
I got a flu shot for the most indefensible or reasons, as Bill Clinton would say, because I could. Then I felt a cold paranoia starting in my arm: Was this a third-worlds trick?