We are currently in Nashville, on the road to Dollywood, and so we don’t have time to write a post today. (If you want to come along with us, from where you are, there is no better guide than our friend and fellow Classicist Helen Morales’ 2014 book Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road […]
Looking back, we will never forget this day (May 3). Here we are, still in the time after the inauguration and before the wall, as Trump’s relentless abuses continue with the recent signing of the new transgender military ban. As you know, we have been meeting downtown every Monday evening. We sometimes tell you about […]
April 19: As Trump orders tightening of visas for highly skilled foreign workers, Minus Plato are in New York City learning about the connection between Persian couriers and US mail-workers. April 20: As Minus Plato travel the subway in search of the Minotaur of the subway, we learn that a Russian Putin-linked think tank developed […]
Did Eos live within a system that reduced her world? – Claudia La Rocco In Cicero’s reworking on the Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic, he presents the fictional dream of Scipio Aemilianus, in which his illustrious (adoptive) grandfather Scipio Africanus explains how the soul escapes the prison of the body to live the true […]
Today’s post is like that moment in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape when Krapp eats a banana and, several minutes later, slips on the peel he left on the floor. But in place of Krapp, we want you to imagine Trump, and for the banana, a gun. Maybe Banksy can help us visualize this: Arming teachers, […]
Who benefits today from folding the evidence of Russian intervention in American democracy into a narrative about the continuation of an endless Cold War? And where does Trump desire for a military parade fit within this narrative? Our suspicion is that both the parade as timely display of US military might and the claims of […]
Trump’s response to the Rob Porter episode is the latest in a series for our abuser in chief defending himself via his kind of man (Roy Moore, Roger Ailes, Corey Lewandowski etc). And nowhere to be heard from our leaders are the voices of the survivors of men’s abuse. But, with such abuse and its […]
We have only allocated an hour to write this post, so we don’t have time to discuss that infamous memo (we mean here the Nunes memo, not Trump himself) Given this time-crunch we’re merely going to see how the posts from our allocated two week period from last year (Jan. 23-Feb 5) fit into the […]
From January 2017 (“From this day forward, it’s only going to be America first, America first.”) to January 2018 (“America first, doesn’t mean America alone”), we have been suffering Trump’s monotonous solution meant to pivot from what he dubbed ‘this American carnage’ (aka anything prior to Trumptime). The doomsday phrase ‘American carnage’ sent journalists scurrying […]
