November 26, 2016
November Static
In one of my classes a few weeks ago, we were reading Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. About a third of the way through the novel, Kundera […]
November 7, 2016
Trump and Jackboots (Also: Please Vote)
As I write this post, on a Sunday afternoon, a bit of news breaks: the FBI has finished its latest review of Clinton’s emails and recommends no new action. So […]
October 16, 2013
Kundera and the Debt Ceiling
This evening, as the House Republicans again failed to offer a bill that would reopen the government and extend the Treasury’s debt limit, I found myself turning to Milan Kundera […]
June 10, 2010
The Sixth Memo
I’ve glanced in the direction of Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium from time to time during my year-plus of writing these posts, but I’ve never, until now, […]