Monthly Archives: April 2018

“The Baron in the Trees” by Italo Calvino

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

There are all types of writers. Writers who make you think. Writers who make you laugh, or who make you cry. Writers who show you another side of a world you have never considered. Writers who open their hearts to … Continue reading →

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Venezuela and the Plastic Sheeting People

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

Yesterday I came across a little video on Twitter produced by the U.S. Government’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance describing an aid package to Venezuela’s refugees living in camps in Brazil and Colombia. There are upwards of 700,000 now in … Continue reading →

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How is it that Countries Die???

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

How is it that countries die; that the civilizations they protected fall away? We who are too young to have experienced the immediate post-colonial period in any meaningful way have come to expect a static world, continents chopped up and … Continue reading →

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The Prose of the Unfree

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

Did you know that the communists invented an entirely new genre for literature? When people talk about ‘Socialist Realism’ they most often think of the paintings of Diego Rivera like “Man at the Crossroads”, the heroic laborer seizing fearlessly the … Continue reading →

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