Lost Confidence, Welling Shame I stepped back into Manhattan and Brooklyn last week, down to the city from my life in the deep upstate woods. I was revisiting the world of privilege that had ousted me in 2021, and that had been so confident and even smug right up until and into the “pandemic.” It’s […]
Prewar Germany and 2022
Are there meaningful parallels between prewar Germany and 2022? After all, the Rally Against the Vaccines on January 23rd was a major success and has led to a perceptible turn in the public discourse about vaccines. That, on top of SCOTUS overturning employer-mandated vaccines (except in the case of Healthcare workers), shine glimmers of hope […]