2024-09-11 My latest: an essay on my teacher Carey McWilliams’s great (in both senses) book The Idea of …
2024-09-02 Recent thoughts about enchantment and disenchantment from two writers who are always worth reading: …
2024-09-02 As did those of 1824, the 2024 elections are revealing the aching need for political organizations …
2024-08-27 “Elections are at most the tip of the political iceberg. They simplify and organize opinion, …
2024-08-22 When Tim Walz says “mind your own damn business,” I think he’s speaking about …
2024-08-19 Twenty years ago, you could find a sentence like this in a DSA publication: “There is one …
2024-08-19 Wendell Berry (from Sabbaths 1994, VII, with some elisions): I would not have been an essayist …
2024-08-19 Wilson Carey McWilliams on SDS, but as if explaining what happened to DSA over the past few years: …
2024-08-16 Residing/dwelling
2024-08-16 Looking at the city: a free re-translation of the Greek words behind the term “political …
2024-08-15 I used to think of “public life” (the life we share with neighbors and strangers, in …
2024-08-15 "connection / Outreaching understanding"