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Commentary by Michael Wade, consultant, speaker, and author of "Pilate's Magician."
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
"Fascism with a Human Face"
"I would contend that what they illustrate is a truth that we should have understood a very long time ago: that Communism is Fascism - successful Fascism, if you will. What we have called Fascism is, rather, the form of tyranny that can be overthrown - that has, largely, failed.
''I repeat: not only is Fascism (and overt military rule) the probable destiny of all Communist societies - especially when their populations are moved to revolt - but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of Fascism. Fascism with a human face.''
- Susan Sontag, in a February 1982 speech
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Dolly Parton, RIP
Commentary in 2020: Rob Long on Dolly Parton, a marvelous person.
Modern Times
- Robert P. George
First Paragraph
Her name is Ana Alvarado, and she's having a bad day. She spent all week preparing for a job interview, the first one in months to reach the videoconference stage, but the recruiter's face barely appeared on-screen before he told her that the company has decided to hire someone else. So she sits in front of her computer, wearing her good suit for nothing. She makes a half-hearted attempt to send queries to some other companies and immediately receives automated rejections. After an hour of this, Ana decides she needs some diversion: she opens a Next Dimension window to play her current favorite game, Age of Iridium.
- From "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" - a short story in Exhalation by Ted Chiang