Category: First Person
Who Is My Neighbor?
Note: the author served as a chaplain in the US Air Force and is now retired. Recently a...
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Dispatch from the NYC Protests
A Dispatch from the New York City Protests, May 28th to 31st Grayson Scott I was born a few...
Read MoreMoratorium
[gview file=”http://politicsslashletters.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Moratorium.pdf”]Santa Cruz in COVID time June 1, 2020 J. Clifford A historical materialist cannot do without the notion of a present which is...
Read MoreIs Becomes Ought: The Mere Necessity of Socialism
We’re now caught between despair and hope, resignation and purpose, facts and values, between the worst and the best of times, between our historical circumstance–what simply is–and our ethical principles–what...
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The Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the Tradition of Women’s Talent
Arielle Isack The first time I ever heard of Jia Tolentino was when an editor at our college...
Read MoreBefore and After the Fall
50 years ago today, I fell 24 feet to my death. On that June 1st, I died to my old self, a lazy, drunken lout, an ex-jock frat boy who had recently been expelled from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the grounds that...
Read MoreI Believe I Saw Donald Trump’s Chariot Today
I believe I saw Trump today or at least his chariot. I was digging a long row of holes for dahlia tubers down on the farm–beautiful late morning, sun and clouds, wind, trees swaying around the edge of the field. Suddenly...
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