George Orwell
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because...
Bruce Dunlavy
by Bruce Dunlavy(An index to my other posts is available from the pull-down menus at the top of this page, and my blog home page and index of other posts may be found here.) After a day of hearing and reading news reports and other people’s commentary on them, I have some thoughts of my own...
Alexis Chateau
Over the past decade, I’ve frequently discussed my experiences as a minority and immigrant in the United States. On November 9, 2016, I wrote the article “Trump Showed Me America’s True Colors.” In it, I explained the difficulties I faced with the immigration process under Trump and how much it...