Daily Archives: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 @ 19:31

The banality of evil

Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem was subtitled A Report on the Banality of Evil — and she spent the rest of her life defending it. Her point was simply this: Eichmann was a nebbish nobody, rather than the larger-than-life monster … Continue reading

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Not in my name, Mr. Trump

Mother Jones links to a pay-walled Wall Street Journal story that, if true, is a benchmark for squalid. “There’s one particular heartbreaking case,” Mr. Videgaray said, referring to a ten-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome who was recently separated from her … Continue reading

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Quote for the day

Families are ripped apart and children are left weeping by the fences constructed by government officials blindly following a regulation. This illustrates something crucial about this administration. It is not populated by conservatives. It is populated by anti-liberal trolls. There’s … Continue reading

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Immigration and the ‘war on drugs’

The most infuriating aspect of the past week of talk-talk-talk about the chaos on our southern border is that I haven’t heard anybody ask, Why are all these people abandoning their familiar homes, friends and families to come here? A … Continue reading

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