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The Peril of Voting and the Promise of Action

John Garvey

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It may well be that no outrage yet carried out under the Trump regime has so galvanized popular disgust and opposition as the decision to implement a policy of separating children from parents when they arrive ...

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Bob Dylan

Larry Kirwan on the magic of seeing Bob Dylan live for the first time

John Garvey

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I might never have become a musician if I hadnโ€™t heard Like A Rolling Stone. That groundbreaking single sent me helter-skeltering out of womb-like Wexford and into the maelstrom of Manhattanโ€™s Lower East Side. I never ...

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Something Lost? Something Gained?

John Garvey

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by John Garvey The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of ...

The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical

John Garvey

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Alfred Sohn-Rethel Alfred Sohn-Rethel was the author ofย Economy and Class Structure in German Fascism andย Intellectual and Manual Labor: a critique of epistemologyโ€”two important works on economics and philosophy.ย  He spent time in Naples during the 1920s ...

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Suggestions for shutdown

John Garvey

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Hard Crackers wants to help the nation out in its time of need; therefore weโ€™ve drawn up the following recommendations for what the government could do during the shutdown: 1.ย  End all drone attacks. 2.ย  Close ...

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Why He Did It

John Garvey

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by John Garvey The authorities and the media sometimes seem more annoyed and frustrated at Stephen Paddock because they can’t figure out why he did it than they are about him killing 58 people and wounding ...

People Simply Empty Out

John Garvey

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In 1969, publisherย John Martinย offered to payย Charles Bukowskiย $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a full-time writer. 49-year-old Bukowski ...

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