Before Rob Reiner became a director whose films taught us how to fall in love, how to remember childhood, how to stand by one another when the world turns cruel, he was something else entirely. He was Meathead. On All in the Family, Michael Stivic wasn’t a hero in the classical sense. He wasn’t a […]
Category: Patriotism (Page 2 of 2)
The most terrifying authoritarian actions never arrive wearing jackboots and shouting decrees. They arrive in legal briefs, phrased in the language of “security,” “integrity,” and “national interest.” And now Donald Trump is preparing one of the most dangerous authoritarian projects in modern American history: the power to strip millions of naturalized Americans of their citizenship […]
We continue being challenged by Trump’s second administration as he pushes boundaries further and further from tradition. Personally, I am absolutely fine with challenging our traditions, but not when it comes to outright bigotry, xenophobia and pure racism. There have been some controversial statements made about our country, including: “If tyranny and oppression come to […]
“All we want is voter ID. You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you give ID” — President Donald J. Trump It sounds simple — obvious, even. That’s the trick. Authoritarians have always loved the obvious answer because it disguises the malicious one. The United […]
I have seen your beauty, America,and I have seen your cruelty.They live side by sideand I tread the road between them. brutus X I. Invocation: The Wound and the Wonder America, my beloved and bewildering country, you are forever suspended between the wound and the wonder. You are not an institution but a condition of […]