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The capacity to weep and to feel the pain of sorrow does not weaken a soldier; if the Iliad shows us anything, it surely shows us this. Jonathan Shay Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

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Tag Archives: John McCain

Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

By CircleReader | November 21st, 2008
"The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur
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Wisdom versus Winning

By CircleReader | November 3rd, 2008
After all this, is your world not larger than it was before? Show me you both are looking for wisdom and understanding, rather than victory.
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Another Halloween

By CircleReader | October 31st, 2008
It's that time of year again, when our culture takes a holiday originating in fall harvest and the passing of generations, and turns it into a celebration of imagination, childhood, community, misrule, aggression, terror, & trauma (as well as another opportunity for a capitalist binge).
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Dashed Hopes (or, Nonsense in Nashville)

By CircleReader | October 8th, 2008
Richard Harwood: "When this campaign started, many people, including myself, thought it was a golden opportunity for a real debate between competing visions for the nation's future. Remember that?"
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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

By CircleReader | September 3rd, 2008
W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…” Problems change, but race is still a problem. And [...]
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