Jim Palombo/Politics

    PRIMA FACIE   by Jim Palombo Politics Editor What the f* is going on? Every so often the crap hits the fan. I mean it’s in the scope of my work to pay attention to and analyze a lot of what’s on our public discussion table. But with all that’s...
On Location/France

On Location/France

    Elizabeth Prouvost: Before the light – Mixed up confusion   Elizabeth Prouvost, Claude Louis Combet, “Born from the Limon”, Fata Morgana, Fontfroide the High, 2018. (Elizabeth Prouvost, Claude Louis Combet, “Né du limon”,...

Catherine Box/Education

    As The Bell Rings   by Catherine Box On the one-year anniversary of the Inauguration of the 45th President, I watched the clock tick to zero on the government shutdown stopgap measure. It seems fitting that a year of turbulence ends with paralysis....

Daniel Dragomirescu/Essay

      The Death of the Gold Digger   by Daniel Dragomirescu I liked to go to the cinema even before I started going to school, and until I was twelve or thirteen I had already seen various movies. The film “The Magnificent Seven”, which was shown...
“Shithole Countries”: Trump uses rhetoric of dictators*

“Shithole Countries”: Trump uses rhetoric of dictators*

Photo by Jose Moreno on Unsplash   Employing a Language of Superlatives by Henry A Giroux George Orwell warns us in his dystopian novel 1984 that authoritarianism begins with language. In the novel, “newspeak” is language twisted to deceive, seduce and undermine...