Year: 2020
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Quotation: William Wan and Brittany Shammas on our imperviousness to horror when the latter is couched in statistics.
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Quotation: George P. Schultz on how fundamental trust is to good leadership. (I’ve experienced both the good and the bad, but I leave that alone.
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“The Children Were Watching,” dir. Robert Drew and Richard Leacock, USA 1961, 25 min. — This documentary doesn’t feel as old to me as I wish it did. In part that’s because I watched it in Trump’s America during an especially difficult year, but something deeper is at play. The…
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Photo: Men sitting on park benches in Haddon Heights, NJ, 1934. The Great Depression hit many people like this hard, not just economically but also physically and mentally.
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A Candorville cartoon from mid-2020.
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Looking forward to a more productive week in quarantine now that martial law and the end of our democracy appear to be off the table for the time being.
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The disturbing emergency alert sound from my phone (for DC’s 4th curfew night) makes me think of an air raid siren. The blaring is an apt metaphor for this presidency.
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Minnesota Governor Walz’s assertion that ongoing riots are no longer about George Floyd ring true in a way. But were they ever about one man? Floyd’s death was certainly no one-off. The protests—and the participation of so many young people—should give pause to those leaders who would gloss over this…
