by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
I. In the fat Age of Pleasure, Wealth, and Ease, Sprung the rank Weed, and thriv’d with large Increase. Alexander Pope writing in the 18th century states it for our own cultural moment: Rather than a Renaissance, the “rank weed” thrives. Seen over...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
I. A hypocrite comes clean, sort of. Frank Rich, in his recent column “Everybody Hates Don Imus,” performs the useful and unusual public service of unmasking himself as a hypocrite. As a repeat guest and longtime listener of the shockingly hateful...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world, she walks into his—again—this time alone. Why? We are in Rick’s Café Americain, in Casablanca. It’s after hours. Rick sits at a table, totaling receipts. Ilsa enters, wearing white. Sam, polishing the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
In a tough Inaugural Address that served as a set of marching orders, President Barack Obama painted the starkness of our historical moment—the “raging storms” of economic crisis, two wars, national decline—and laid blame all around: on the Bush...
