Gary Lindorff: Say something followed by a reflection I don't remember you saying anything negative. / But when I read this today / I imagined you turning your pained eyes to me.

John Hawkins: Film Review: Perfect Days (2023) Review of the film, Perfect Days direted by Wim Wenders. Its a classic Wenders film. Excellent quiet achieved.

Thomas Farrell: Fareed Zakaria on Liberalism vs. Illiberalism (REVIEW ESSAY) The seasoned Indian American journalist, commentator, and author Fareed Zakaria (born in Mumbai in 1964; Ph.D. in government, Harvard University, 1993) has published a timely new book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2024), about the print culture that emerged in Western culture after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s.

Meryl Ann Butler: March 29: On This Day in Art History On this day in art history, March 29, Madeleine Knobloch's artist-lover died in Paris. She was born in 1868, and was a working class woman and artist's model. Her artist-lover was, at 31, was nearly a decade older. 1 

Thomas Farrell: Jonathan Haidt on the Epidemic of Mental Illness in Gen Z (REVIEW ESSAY) The American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (born in 1963; Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) of New York University's Stern School of Business has published a disturbing new book about Gen Z, the generation born after 1995, titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Random House). He targets smartphones and social media.

Katie Singer: Watershed questions Can you draw a map of your bioregion? When does your rainy season begin? In your region, where does rainfall go? Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go?

Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D'Eloia (1943-1990).

John Hawkins: The Water Sonnet It's world water day. And I feel like flipping a cheerleadr high in the sky! Okay, it's a day or so lter. I forgot. Imagine being a water creature and forgetting water day, f*ck.

Gary Lindorff: The exuberant invitation and a reflection Everything that is ours is yours. / Be sure to bring your Prozac and your Zantac and your kayak

Mike Rivage-Seul: My Homilist's Writer's Block in the Face of Genocide SUNDAY REFLECTION: I'm sorry. I find it impossible to comment on "God's word" that has been invoked so cynically to justify the sadistic slaughter of far more than 31,200 innocents, more than half of them children and their mothers 12 

John Hawkins: St. Paddy's Day 2024 A celebration of all things ancient Boston St. Paddy days of yore. Go Broons!

Gary Lindorff: Greg Braden on the Psalm 83 War: What about those Biblical prophecies and coded predictions? Do the stupidest, shallowest, most self-centered or delusional, narrow minded, sickest people make the most history?

Gary Lindorff: Magical protection followed by a brief reflection Such power objects are not fake./ Especially if they call you to them,

Cathy Pagano: America is Having an Identity Crisis: Right on Time. America is going through an identity crisis. Will we be Christian nationalist fascists or will we choose to be Americans who believe in freedom and equality? This identity crisis is written in the sky as well as within each of us.

John Hawkins: Abolish Slavery Now Anglela Y. Davis has a new book about an old continuing theme. Who said slavery was gone? Buy a bridge?