Author: phronesis

Garrison Keilor isn’t Lewis Lapham but then again, Lapham can’t tell stories like Keilor can. This is Keilor’s editorial in this Sunday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune....

I’ve stated in a different forum that Sept. 11 was Karl Rove’s and George Bush’s Reichstag fire.  Many people have pointed out the fascist tendencies and the Nazi Like thuggery practiced by the far right...

Lewis Lapham is the first “mainstream’ media editor, to call for George w. Bush’s political head.  It’s about time.  His editorial in the latest issue of Harper’s is outstanding.  For...

The bombing of mosques in Iraq is the logical result of Bush’s war against Hussein and his utterly idiotic and incompetent adventure in Iraq.  But Bush is so arrogant and so stupid and so incompetent that he still...

Political and Civic Virtue I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks.  It may be too pessimistic for some, but I think it is an objective glare into the near future of our republic.  I used Political...