Mainstream/legacy media’s abject surrender to the oligarchy, the sane-washing of Trumpism, the craven kowtowing and risk-aversion, make it clear there’s no hill they’ll die on. They’ll simply expire. […]
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During the Covid pandemic many people were calling for a “New WPA” to help alleviate the cultural crisis while, in fact, CETA was a more viable model. It had received bipartisan support in 1973, and was actually signed into law by Richard Nixon! […] While keeping a sharp eye on the political situation, we have taken some steps toward improving our personal infrastructure, so as to make us as self-sufficient as possible. […] It seems paradoxical to say that gentleness and joy are contained in Beuford Smith’s work, even at its fiercest, but the truth of that is perhaps his greatest accomplishment and the firmest possible foundation for the major body of work he has just begun — and, indeed, can at this stage hardly avoid — creating. […] |
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Straight Outta Stone Ridge: Small-Town Talk (4)
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier defined a private home as a “machine for living.” So this winter, just now ebbing, put our “machine for living” to the test. Which it passed with flying colors. […]