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  • A 50-year civil war?

    A 50-year civil war?

    Jill Lepore argues in The New Yorker that the Kent State shootings, of which today is the 50-year anniversary, followed by those at Jackson State in Mississippi, followed by the “Hard Hat Riot” in New York (in which construction workers beat up student antiwar protesters) began a civil war that continues today, with Trump’s shock…

  • Brassed Off

    Brassed Off

    I’ve been a Jules Feiffer fan for as long as I can remember. To my 1960s teenage mind, his cartoons and animations put him squarely in that olympian world of hip, intellectual Greenwich Village. He was in a pantheon that included comics like Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Nichols and May, and publications like the…