Introducing THIS KIND OF MAN
Sean Murphy"She didn’t understand how men could do those things. What things? he asked, and she said, The things men do. Then he nodded. Oh, he said, those things." —Tim O’Brien, The…
Death of a Salesman and the American Dream
Burn all the political books and essays: trivia masquerading as analysis that mostly measures horse races and trends, at best attempting to make sense of what's already history; if you…
The Things They Carry, Continued…
Two stories from today's New York Times. What a coincidence. ON THIS DAY On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by…
The Things We Don’t Carry
Chris Hedges knows more than you do. So it is his prerogative to be pissed off. He's seen the things many of us have not seen (indeed, have not even…
1973: The Things They Carried
From NYT: On March 29, 1973, the last United States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. I can't recall the last time I watched…