Something I wrote a few years ago:
The Magical Powers of a New Shirt: on The West Wing, 9/11, language, and violence
Something I wrote a few years ago:
The Magical Powers of a New Shirt: on The West Wing, 9/11, language, and violence
We are staying home today, and we will not turn on the radio, the tv, or the ringers on our phones. It was a crime against humanity, not against some culturally contingent economic theory. Security derives from universal liberty. I am free only so long as everyone else enjoys the same freedom. I live in a country of drooling morons who have forgotten this. (Liberty is expensive, and is often not worth the trouble: people don’t seem to value it.