“How Isis Resembles Yesterday’s Anarchists”
End Italian Immigration Now! Today, revolutionary anarchists seem archaic, almost quaint. But for around 50 years, from the 1880s to the 1930s, anarchists carried out terror attacks all over the world....
View ArticleWar “Under the Authority of Our Indifference”: Michael Brendan Dougherty
writes: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama is now facing some tough decisions about two countries he is bombing in the Middle East. Watching the demoralizing carnage in Syria and an uptick in the...
View Article“On the Brink of a ‘Filipino Moment'” in the Catholic Church: Crux
dispatch: …On any list of the most consequential Catholic nations today, the Philippines would easily finish in the top five, and there’s a good case to be made that it’s #1. It’s the third largest...
View ArticleAssisted Suffering
So, I voted. Remember how I said my ballot would be a fractal of civic helplessness? That’s especially true because of the current DC political issue that isn’t being put to referendum: Assisted...
View ArticleCatholic Churches in the Philippines Sheltering Targets of Duterte’s “Reign...
reports, with good historical background: The Catholic church in the Philippines is operating a network that hides addicts and others targeted in president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war, priests...
View ArticleThe Cross and the Cannibal: I read “Fires on the Plain”
Fires on the Plain, Shohei Ooka’s 1951 novel of the Japanese defeat in the Philippines, lets you know what it’s like from the start. In the very first scene a tubercular private returns to his unit,...
View ArticleLove the Player, Hate the Game
Recently watched The Interrupters, a PBS documentary about a group of Chicagoans who seek to prevent murders by “interrupting” the cycle of anger, vengeance, and despair which leads people to choose to...
View ArticleLooping Archival Footage: “Candyman” (2021)
The first frames of the new Candyman show the familiar logos–Universal’s cloud-wrapped earth and all the lesser production-house symbols–backward, a mirror image, so you wonder if something’s gone...
View ArticleCrouch We Here, And Lurk: Short movie reviews
In the order in which I saw them! Good Madam: Post-apartheid South African horror, streaming on Shudder. A woman going through family troubles (Chumisa Cosa) and her daughter move back in with her...
View ArticleGoodfellas of the Flower Moon
NB: This post is cross-posted at my substack, where most of my less-official and more-experimental or more-fun writing is nowadays. You might subscribe! Creatures, a few weeks ago I watched Killers of...
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