The United States of America has surrendered all claims to moral superiority. We’re the world’s largest exporter of state-sponsored terrorism and international perfidy. We operate one-thousand overseas military bases in places that, best case scenario, put up with our presence begrudgingly, sullenly, involuntarily hosting the bellicose bully with a B-2 bomber, the abusive uncle who shows...
Hope RekindledThis past week has given us more hope for our diseased republic than any other time in 50+ years of paying attention. Observing and participating in a long-overdue peaceful uprising, occupying the streets, feeling the righteous energy of people of all ages, colors, faiths, and wealth (or lack thereof), has…
Clarinetist Glenn Dickson, master of klezmer, has made a solo recording, “Wider Than the Sky,” that’s been on perpetual repeat at our home office. Using over-dubs and electronic digital effects, Dickson fills the aural soundscape with a rich melange of chordal textures supporting the melody. His celebrated virtuosity is subsumed here to long, elegiac musical...
