Europa’s Children

“We hold these truths to be self-evident” asserts our Declaration of Independence: “that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…… Read more “The Power of Polite Fictions”

Featured Image: Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, Paradisio, Amsterdam 1977. Photo by Koen Soek/Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Neoliberalism does not fight, it only conquers. Those who finance…… Read more “Ever Get The Feeling You’ve Been Cheated?”

Featured image: CHINESE Red Guard parade, June 1966. Photo Jean Vincent, APF/Getty Images I never declared myself a White Supremacist. In four years of hanging around the…… Read more “Confessio de Peccatis Nostris”

Featured image: Newark riots, 1967 The day after Governor Phil Murphy reopened New Jersey’s beaches, a Minneapolis police officer knelt atop George Floyd for eight minutes and…… Read more “THE FIRE LAST TIME”

Featured Image: Theodor Severin Kittelsen, She Is Making Her Way Through the Country (1900) On April 16 Governor Phil Murphy said he would be “the happiest guy,…… Read more “Schrödinger’s Plague”

Featured Image: St. Roch asking the Virgin Mary to heal victims of the plague, Jacques-Louis David (1780) Like 9/11, COVID-19 has been a high interest/low information event…… Read more “Notes from a Time of Pestilence”

Featured image: the earliest rendition of the Crucifixion, a mocking graffito proclaiming of a fellow servant, “Alexamenos Worships His God,” c. 200 Early Christians could have claimed…… Read more “The Absurdity of Christ”

To the memory of Fuensanta Plaza, and to Annamaria Sigyn Estelle Filan. Hreggdanz First fled as a falcon, bedazzled by lightning after so long in darkness, wings…… Read more “Loki at Nyssa (pt. 1)”

Featured image: Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne, July 1794 After beheading their king, the French Convention set its sights on God.  Churches were stripped of their golden monstrances…… Read more “Robespierre’s Shadow”

Featured Image: Joe Netherworld, died January 2020 I: Do not call me Tiresias:  I am not that seer. I am a mockingbird amidst nightingales, speaking in tongues…… Read more “For Peggy, on the death of her friend”