A Three-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Dec 23, 2024 · Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. Newsletter Sign up with your email address below to receive our newsletter free newsletter every two weeks.
The Discontents of Capitalism - Merion West
Oct 21, 2024 · “Why, in fact, do we feel compelled to ask if capitalism is failing? Why do we wonder if capitalism is moral? Why do 57% of respondents in an Edelman Trust Barometer survey believe that ‘capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world?'”
On the Trump Coalition - Merion West
Dec 6, 2024 · (President-elect Donald Trump in July of this year at The Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida/Gage Skidmore/Flickr) “The economic situation during the Biden administration eroded and degraded the average American’s ability to participate in the life of the nation as an economically self-sufficient citizen.”
Butter Weed - Merion West
Dec 6, 2024 · Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. Newsletter Sign up with your email address below to receive our newsletter free newsletter every two weeks.
Darryl Cooper: Revisionist History and Misplaced Empathy
Sep 26, 2024 · (Winston Churchill visits with Marines during a trip to Iceland on 16 August 1941/USMC Archives) “ Perhaps it is because of my own bias toward [Darryl Cooper as a friend, but the responsibility for such imprecise talk is something I place on [Tucker] Carlson, not on his interview subject.” I have, for many years, recommended Darryl Cooper’s hit podcast Martyr Made to the relative handful ...
The Many Problems with Marxism - Merion West
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.
Little Engines of Self: Joy Manesiotis’ “Revoke” | Merion West
Dec 8, 2024 · Airlie Press “It is a remarkable feat of poetics to create epic sense out of the most micro of human materials.” I n tracing the origins of lyric from the monody of Greek melic poems to Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody!/Who are You?” David Baker reminds us that “lyric poetry is never merely about a self but is always also a social …
Why We Should Still Read Charles Bukowski | Merion West
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.'”
Mannequin Exposé | Merion West
Dec 20, 2024 · Merion West is an online magazine of politics and culture. Newsletter Sign up with your email address below to receive our newsletter free newsletter every two weeks.
Why Postmodernism Still Matters - Merion West
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 …