Friday, July 26, 2024
Jim Harrison
The Paris Review interview with Jim Harrison is like a novel of its own.
A threatening sign outside—DO NOT ENTER THIS DRIVEWAY UNLESS YOU HAVE CALLED FIRST. THIS MEANS YOU—is belied by the inside of the farmhouse, a hospitable home with bookcases lining the walls, dogs and cats comfortably reclined on the furniture.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
The Common Dream
You have a dream in which you have to take the final exam in an English class tomorrow.
Unfortunately, for some unexplainable reason, you have forgotten to attend and study for any of the class sessions. You have no idea of how to proceed.
And then you remember that you have been out of school for years.
Upcoming Explorations
In addition to Social Security, the national debt, and border security, the months extending from now to far beyond the presidential election may well include detailed examinations of the following subjects:
- Elementary and high school hiring practices and education
- Reframing/streamlining college education via certificates instead of diplomas
- Expanding viewpoint diversity at universities
- Privacy rights and Big Tech
- Water conservation
- Human resources practices
- Emphasizing the role of fathers
- Health risks of smartphones
- Re-vitalizing communities
- Preserving farms
- Adverse effects of commonly used software
- Reforming accreditation boards and practices
- Law enforcement recruitment
- Assumptions on military defense
- Initiating mandatory national service
A New Low: Gaslighting the Public on Kamala Harris as "Border Czar"
"There was something just more than a teensy bit Bolshevik about all of this. This piece of information that was once considered a fact - as in, a week ago - has in the past 48 hours been deemed politically unhelpful, and so we're just going to make it . . . disappear."
Read all of Peter Savodnik's column in The Free Press.
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