Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? The post The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Lessons Extracted from a Migraine Is there something to be said for enforced stillness? “I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-honored 1981 biopic of the Communist journalist John Reed, Reds. Although the film itself worked overtime to aggrandize its protagonist—he was, after all, played by Beatty, then in full command of his charm and screen presence—Miller did the opposite: The sly, devilish author of Tropic of…Open
In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. The post The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Inner Depths We Hide From Strangers In a crowded movie theater, the man next to you may have interviewed the stars on the screen. As an inhabitant of one of the cities caught up in the nationwide heatwave earlier this month—Columbus, Ohio—I can confirm that the weather was stifling. The heatwave has dropped out of the news—that will happen when a Democratic Senate candidate has ended his cataclysmically ill-advised candidacy and the Iran War peace deal has evidently failed to hold—but the temperatures remain persistently unpleasant. But, having learned from my upbringing in the reliably hot and humid suburbs of New…Open
Their sentiments struck a common theme: the U.S. has prospered since its founding in 1776 because generations of Americans have worked to fight for democracy.
By Greg Maresca The mood is unmistakably different from the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976; can we rekindle a shared sense of patriotism and purpose?
We're celebrating 1776, but from around 1825-1827, socialism was enacted in various cult communities in the U.S. and now serves as a warning from history for today.