Blue City Blues: Getting Real on Involuntary Commitment
Freddie deBoer is a cogent critic of recent ideological turns within blue city progressive culture.
Trump’s China-Style Cultural Revolution: Punishing Free Speech
The autonomy of universities is no longer recognized. ICE agents are now allowed to barge into places of worship. The nation’s boss man fires the management of a cherished cultural institution.
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Passing Through: Some Writers Who Stopped Here
Carl Sandburg was called upon to give a talk and play his guitar at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. His talk was a success, but he left the stage without touching the lonely guitar.
A Few Shreds of Hope as we Stumble Further into the Age of Trump?
Perhaps sensing a bleak mood among their readers, some of the columnists/commentators I follow began the year by trying, or so it appeared, to talk us back from the edge.
George Vanderveer, Two-fisted Attorney for Underdogs
As a Deputy King County Prosecuting Attorney, George Vanderveer stepped into one courtroom fracas after another. His legal life was a baptism in the world of radicals, pickpockets, and their neighbors.
It Takes a Good Story to Win: The Dems don’t yet have one
The other side had a story.
How Harold L. Ickes Saved Olympic Peninsula Forests
The Olympic Peninsula was once set aside for hunting elk and mining manganese. Thanks to Ickes and Gov Wallgren, those lands are now protected for recreation.
The Seattle Symphony’s New Music Director Takes a Bow
These are indeed minor criticisms in a performance that was full of delights and surprises. Holst's notoriously dense and difficult-to-balance orchestration here sounded lucid and detailed.
Escaping the US? A PSA for Moving to Italy
If you are not eligible for citizenship, you will need to qualify for one of several visas.
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