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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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Liberalism in the South
… efforts to preserve things long established are likely to become confused with the “purposes of God” and to take on the spirit of a crusade. But the rural man is also an individualist. Revolt is as characteristic as … to the widening of horizons and the improvement of the common lot. Around these two tendencies hangs the tale of …
Play
… work as a moral equivalent for war, did not see that play also is a moral equivalent for war, and joined Schiller in … of Berlin declared that play was more restful than complete idleness and served to recuperate and restore the … writers since then. He said that in play the emotions “become purified of a great deal of the distasteful and …
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“The End”
… lines. But alas, I’m not feeling much like exclamation points or fruity cocktails. Since fixing the last comma, spell-checking, and running my final word count … face. Yet, the story must end… The characters exit. The audience leaves the house. A single light shines on the empty …
The “Other Side” of Jacobinism
… harden into postulates that brook no alternative and no compromise. This has been the case with “Jacobinism”—even … to act for the good of all (and the nation) and equated obedience—presumed to be freely given by each for the good of … the making of policy and its implementation: where various points of view compete and compromise and where none can …
The New Minstreldom, or Why So Much in Contemporary Black Culture Went Wrong
… of plays or during circuses; and blacks sang, with banjo accompaniment, on many a city street. But it was Rice who … of the racism that continues to separate—and, yes, to also bind—blacks and whites in America. Nothing so elevated … section, I introduced those who would belt out “Camptown Ladies” and other such songs or dance up a storm doing a …
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Amigos
… the shimmery Meliá Cohiba, the Jazz Café—but since few locals could afford drinks there, the tourists who wanted to … Then, twenty years ago, the USSR fell and Soviet subsidies disappeared and with them more than a third of Cuba’s … in Cuba aren’t at all like those in Amsterdam. But her comments pointed toward something that was still unsaid, …
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