A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: Eduardo at the Café Bona Lista

Biological warfare is not new. But that doesn’t mean every time people are supposed to have been hit by the bug, they actually have been infected by that particular bug. Information can be manufactured to fit agendas. Evidence can be falsified. (Fiction) Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2021: Eduardo at the Café Bona Lista

Fahrenheit 451 redux

by Henry A. Giroux “The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it…. A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth—that is what I am after… I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for my young men.” — Adolf Hitler “They that start by burning books will end by burning men.” – Heinrich Heine Every once in a while events flash before us that might at first seem trivial or commonplace given how in tune they are with the political and ideological temper of the times; but in reality they sometimes … Continue reading Fahrenheit 451 redux