Cruise ships are big—the ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily. Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high (imagine the field standing upright on an end zone). Estimates for 2019 are that 20 million people went […]
Noel Ignatiev—1940-2019: A Life Defined by Political Engagement
Noel Ignatiev, the author of the following essay on Frederick Douglass, died on November 9th of this year. Although he had been ill, he wasn’t expecting death in the immediate future. In fact, he was looking forward to the publication of the essay in The Brooklyn Rail. The brief period of time since his death […]
After El Paso and Dayton
I wonder if we might contribute something to the discussion by focusing on what I’d describe as the “script” of the post-shooting responses. That script includes the following: 1. praise for the first responders; 2. exhortations from local political leaders that “this will not affect who we are” and “we will recover”; 3. a promise […]
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