Vanishing
Edward Curtin Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where…
Memorial Day: The Glorification of War, Not War’s Victims
Edward Curtin Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were…
There is a Time for Everything, Even No News That’s Fit to Print
Edward Curtin Substack Without having read the details and having no intention to do so, I am still wondering if The New York’s Times’ advice for Sunday May 17, about…
Rita Mary Rose: A Mother, an Artist and a Soul Still Speaking
Edward Curtin While days like Mother’s Day are corny, they do elicit memories. I think of my mother. She died at the age of 100. Although she was quite debilitated…
Everything We Don’t Need to Know, and A Few We Do
Edward Curtin Jr. “And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We…
Trump, Sanity, and Obedience
Edward Curtin “Shameless self-willed infatuationEmboldens men to dare damnation,And starts the wheels of doom which rollRelentless to their piteous goal”– Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon Many people are saying that…
Surveilling Swine
By Edward Curtin “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which…
Palaver and Parable: Trump’s Babble
“All lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest” – “The Boxer,” Paul Simon Listening to Donald Trump is like staring at a record…
The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
Edward Curtin “One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it — it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.”Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Anyone…
The Carefully Contrived Spontaneity of the “Shocking” Epstein Files Release
By Edward Curtin for Behind the Curtin Whenever a “scandal” like the Epstein files dominates the news, we can be certain that it is meant as a distraction from something…
A Comforter in the Storm
By Edward Curtin “What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own…
Fifty‑Eight Years Later, the Truth About MLK’s Murder Still Terrifies America
By Edward Curtin Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. They know that…
Swinging on a Double Action Heinous Hinge with Donald Trump
Anything anyone can say about the demagogic Donald Trump is true, whether it comes from his critics, his supporters, or those who look on in amazed horror and fascination that…
Listening to Frank Sinatra on New Year’s Eve
Do people fly south in the winter time to find new leaves, only to find their old selves when they get there?
Friedrich Nietzsche Asks George Clooney, ‘Jay Kelly,’ and Us: What is an Actor?
At the time I laughed but really didn’t get it. Now I do. I really do.