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Against Hamas: A Gazan Voice in the Wilderness
The morning after Hamas’s October 7th sneak attack on Israel in which 1200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage. I began to see social media posts from someone named Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib.
At a moment of maximum rage and pani...
History As An Act of Resistance And Defiance
In early June 2014, around 3,000 fighters of the Islamic State and Syria, aka ISIS, seized Mosul, Iraq’s second city. A city of 2 million people supposedly defended by 60,000 troops fell in under a week. Half a million people fled. One who...
AI Apocalypse Approaches: the Fight for the Future of Work.
Once upon a time the world of work was a full-time beat at newspapers. In the middle of the last century labor correspondents covered work via reporting on unions. This made sense because after 75 years of intense, occasionally violent stru...
The Musical Life of a Revolutionary
“There was music in the [taverns] at night
And revolution in the air
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died”
Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue
Sunset at Monticello
It wasn’t Dylan’s intention...
July 4th Listening: Mr. Jefferson's Library
As part of BBC Radio 4’s season marking America’s 250th Anniversary I was asked to write and read a series of short essays on Thomas Jefferson’s Library. Jefferson was well-known throughout British America for having the finest private coll...
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