Dec 1, 2024 · President Donald Trump in England in 2018 (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks) “ Those Europeans who shake their heads in disbelief at President-elect Trump and his success would do well to consider things, including themselves, from an American and, even more so, a global point of view.” W hile Americans have lived every day with the consequences of the Biden presidency, Europeans ...

Oct 5, 2024 · (Jürgen Habermas/photo by Wolfram Huke) “Finally, postmodernism influenced numerous intellectual variants that today are popular public philosophies, and we need to understand the intellectual foundations of such systems of thought if …

Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. by Johnny Payne Essay-“In her exquisitely physical Rodeo, Sunni Brown Wilkinson takes her place among those superb modernists, early and late and post, who recognize the combination of mutability and continuity across poetic epochs that is a key to lyric’s continuing strength and ...

Jan 22, 2025 · (Anton Uniqueton) “How/it both is, and is not/a type of existence.” after Magritte . This is not another poem about the moon. or the last strawberry popsicle of August

Oct 11, 2024 · “The author of this essay is the proud owner of 25 books, poetry collections, and short story anthologies written by the man widely recognized as the godfather of the literary movement known as ‘dirty realism.'”

Apr 15, 2020 · (AP Photo/Michael Probst) “I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences.

Jan 22, 2025 · (Shane Kell) “ If a stranger comes around, if he’s wise, he will keep to the road and announce his business soon, clearly and loudly, then you’ll see what’s what. You’re not against him, but you’re not automatically for him.” M y father, whose namesake I am, was born in a makeshift cabin in a holler in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was called The Hainted Holler because haints ...

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6 days ago · “Bruises bloom roses; the blind bird has fled./Ocean quiet bedroom night light turned dim,/the sting of his fist purple on her skin.” Ocean quiet, bedroom night lights turned dim, her shadow´s reflection cries out afraid. The sting of his fist, purple on …

Feb 2, 2025 · (Pixabay) “ Yet what might in lesser hands become mere effusions is tempered with a wise, sometimes steely, sometimes self-abnegating, sometimes mournful contemplative voice that speaks of philosophical and personal concerns combined…” T he Romantic poets, who were the forerunners of what is now called eco-poetry, marveled at the splendor of the natural world—albeit one arguably less ...