For Your Penance - Merion West
Dec 13, 2024 · (Cottonbro Studio) “There is a fervor that I do not surge with,/A saintliness with which I do not sing.” There is an arc of maturation that. You wrote me a prescription for.
Our Life-World, Its Enemies, and the Enduring Power of Common …
Dec 28, 2024 · (A Statue of George Washington in Boston/Wikimedia Commons) “ Similarly distinct from the regular life-world is the world of academic theory, in which, as in the fantasy world, theoretical constructs are often divorced from any dependency on practical outcomes.” O n November 3, 2024, two days before Election Day 2024, the prominent journalist and podcaster Megyn Kelly was called to the ...
Skwentna, AK | Merion West
Dec 17, 2024 · (Lamont Mead) “The woods sigh. And then, a thousand miles away,/I’m in your arms again. Your breathing is an ocean./I’m drifting away. You whisper.”
The Many Problems with Marxism - Merion West
Apr 15, 2020 · (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences.
Start Making Sense: “Say Hello to Metamodernism” | Merion West
Dec 17, 2024 · (Megan Rosenbloom/Flickr) “ Just as [Greg] Dember’s generation inherited modernism and felt a need to rebel, today’s younger generations have inherited postmodernism and no doubt feel the same urge to keep the sense of cultural evolution progressing.” S ometime in the early 1980s, there was a point when rock bands …
Sand, Ash, or Mud: Valerie Witte’s “A Rupture in the Interiors”
Dec 22, 2024 · Tzara caused equal amounts of excitement and consternation, as if he had set off a fire alarm in a police station merely to amuse himself. But the varying typography, the spacing, and the incongruity of the phrases become weirdly pleasant upon closer inspection, as when one begins to pick up different pieces of amethyst, aquamarine, citrine, garnet, and onyx stored in bins in a gemstone shop.
Rejoinder to Ben Burgis: The Case for Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Dec 19, 2024 · “According to that tried and true statement, ‘wealthier is healthier.’ Free enterprise leads to greater wealth and, thus, to greater health and longevity, ceteris paribus.”
Butter Weed - Merion West
Dec 6, 2024 · Randy Manning “Having just emerged from her tv and ac,/she was too sun-shocked and asphyxiating/to hear ‘it’s a lovely shoot’/as my spade severed the root.”
The Hand | Merion West
Dec 27, 2024 · Lalesh Aldarwish “The hand drops a fresh globe/into the scoured skull, secures breath upon/the hemispheric nostrils and stands back,/appraising…”
Interviews - Merion West
by Jonathan Church The Center-“Hamas wants to maximize the death of its civilian population. The purpose is to get the international community, the United Nations, the United States, other governments around the world, to condemn Israel, to vilify Israel, to delegitimize Israel, and undermine the Jewish state in that way.” (12/19/2023)