Category: Politics
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We Interrupt the Regularly-Scheduled Program…
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The start of war against Iran by Israel and the United States requires recognition of others’ service and misery before resuming regularly-scheduled programming on Peace.
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Lawyer, Ambassador, Twain Scholar: Donald Bliss
Time to head to the Pacific Islands and see what Peace Corps lawyers were up to in Micronesia in 1966.
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A Night of Despair and a Voice of Hope
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This episode of SoftPower/FulStories, uncharacteristically in-the-moment, offers two hopeful voices paddling calmly, sanely, purposefully, across our current river of despair. The American dream ain’t dead.
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Hostage Crisis III and the Ghosts of Camelot
Metrinko was cleaned up and brought to meet Tehran’s Friday prayer leader Ali Khamenei. In the room were a camera crew and the SFIL spokesperson, Niloufar Ebtekar
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A Dumb Thing Walter Said
What Walter Kirn gets wrong about fascist protests: their cliches and tropes are all too easy to spot. Violence, racism, hate, tiki-torches, and insurrection.
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Iran Hostage Crisis II
Limbert’s poise, broadcast in Iran and around the world, leveraged Khamenei’s own culture into a polite message discrediting those holding the Americans captive
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Opinion Journalism
A brief pivot from Peace Corps profiles to pressing matters of climate change and opinion journalism.
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Joe McCarthy & Arthur Miller
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Joe McCarthy led a witch hunt that in turn led to required reading for all U.S. high school students: Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible.
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Chopping Wood on 9/11
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Writing about the Zen Buddhism saying “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water,” yard work, and visiting the dump.
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Launch of New Podcast
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Novelist Ben East introduces a new podcast about building international relations for a stronger America.
Ben East Books 