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Eyes on Ukraine (1)

Though by definition I can only observe the war in Ukraine from afar, I don’t think of myself as merely a spectator, nor of this as a spectator sport. Count me instead as a concerned citizen of the world — a world that the outcome of this catastrophe will affect deeply. And someone who sees democracy worldwide at stake here. […]

Straight Outta Stone Ridge: The Fish Rots All the Way to the Tail

Local Republican candidate Paul Tuzzolino claims to be “fiercely independent.” However, given his party affiliation, and his chosen party’s fealty to the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted convicted rapist, and the variety of fierce independence his Republican cohorts display, we have a right to demand that he put a finer point on his self-congratulatory assertion. […]

Election 2024: Image World (3)

Whoever you are, dear reader, I guarantee you this: Depending on your age, you will see Trump’s Georgia mugshot hundreds and possibly thousands of times over the course of the rest of your life. T-shirts and coffee mugs, book jackets and magazine covers, print and online news articles, his eventual obituaries … lodged irrevocably in your memory. Get used to it. […]

Dog Day Afternoons: Bits & Pieces (14)

Sam Stall foresees the same grim future for arts criticism as I do: produced by “freelancers or retired people who still want to contribute,” self-funded (like this blog) or minimally subsidized by some grants organization, self-published (like this blog) or presented at the subsidized website of a non-profit arts organization. In short, exceedingly narrowcast, and isolated from other subjects of cultural commentary — the very antithesis of newspaper-based cultural journalism. […]

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (52b)

In the end, it seems fittingly ironic that the Occam’s-Razor explanation for all of Capa’s missing D-Day negatives turns out to be the scissors of the censor. The legend of the lost negatives resulted from nothing more or less than the needs of Capa’s outsize ego. […]