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Coup d’état, ou L’état c’est moi?
Richard Farr
  • Nov 27, 2019

Coup d’état, ou L’état c’est moi?

Donnie! Bibi! Evo! Irony alert. They’re all corrupt and they are all prepared to cling to power through lies and force even when their...
Oh, and lock him up too.
Richard Farr
  • Nov 16, 2019

Oh, and lock him up too.

Criminals, criminals, everywhere And none that stopped to think Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Crime of the Ancient Panderer A friend, out...
A total lack of common sense
Richard Farr
  • Nov 6, 2019

A total lack of common sense

A spokesperson for survivors of the Grenfell tragedy have apologized for saying that Jacob Rees-Mogg “showed a total lack of common...
Macboris: a fragment from a lost play about power and nihilism
Richard Farr
  • Nov 4, 2019

Macboris: a fragment from a lost play about power and nihilism

Discovered recently among the manuscripts of that great English dramatist Willie A. Peakshamers: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
No Reasonable American
Richard Farr
  • Aug 13, 2019

No Reasonable American

The latest mass shootings by home-grown American terrorists come during a massive corruption scandal at the organization popularly known...
Trump v Mueller in Plato’s footnotes
Richard Farr
  • Jun 3, 2019

Trump v Mueller in Plato’s footnotes

Two pictures tell a thousand words. In his recent public appearance, Robert Mueller thought he’d been clear, or as clear as the peculiar...
Nasty journalism
Richard Farr
  • Jun 2, 2019

Nasty journalism

What with global warming to worry about, and Syria, and the Sixth Extinction, we really shouldn’t be spending any of our attention on...
Understanding the Con
Richard Farr
  • May 29, 2019

Understanding the Con

Absurd and repulsive though he is, the vandal Boris Johnson (Pants-on-Fire, Con), who has perhaps done his country more harm than any...
Those who would be king
Richard Farr
  • Mar 1, 2019

Those who would be king

Authoritarianism is on the rise … measurably. Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton has said that one of the most fundamental...
Richard Farr
  • Nov 27, 2018

Lynching the language too

No surprise that the President has rushed to the aid of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose campaign in Mississippi has been threatened by a...
Fascism for beginners
Richard Farr
  • Oct 15, 2018

Fascism for beginners

“Oh what fun it all is! Look at the joy on their little faces!” There’s so much being written about threats to democracy that it’s hard...
Pry social media from your own trembling hands?
Richard Farr
  • Oct 11, 2018

Pry social media from your own trembling hands?

Should you place a hood over the evil Facebook, blast Twitter out of its tree, and rip up all your Instagrams? You really should,...
Authoritarianism and its antidote
Richard Farr
  • Oct 8, 2018

Authoritarianism and its antidote

After so many headlines about the men who  want to turn the world into kindling and warm their hands over the flames (in just this...
Speaking as a human being; on identity (politics) and intersectionality.
Richard Farr
  • Aug 24, 2018

Speaking as a human being; on identity (politics) and intersectionality.

Excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times from a couple of weeks ago by (my once-upon-a-time teacher) Kwame Anthony Appiah, applying his...
Vichy Republicans
Richard Farr
  • Aug 23, 2018

Vichy Republicans

I repeat this excellent and precisely chosen adjective from a piece by Frank Rich: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/trump-imp...
Richard Farr
  • Aug 16, 2018

On Tyranny

Here are seven favorite quotations from historian Timothy Snyder’s superb short book of the same name: When the men with guns who have...
Richard Farr
  • Jul 31, 2018

Patriotism, racism, and profitable posturing at the NFL

Standing in the crowd at sports events recently, I find the continued singing of the national anthem more and more surreal. “Land of the...
Richard Farr
  • Jul 8, 2018

Putting the con in conservative

The theme is a growing one – at long last: a crucial fact about American politics, without which little else can be understood, is that...
Richard Farr
  • Jun 29, 2018

David Brooks and the illusions of Conservatism

I’ve thought it for decades, and conservative columnist David Brooks has finally admitted it – sort of: most of the people referred to in...
Richard Farr
  • Jun 22, 2018

Charles Krauthammer and honesty

We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead – apparently, indeed, we are supposed to go on and on about how marvelous the dead were. And...
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