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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
--Socrates
The novelist is neither historian nor prophet: he is an explorer of evidence.
--Milan Kundera
Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
--Heinrich Heine
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
--Ray Bradbury
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives.
--Albert Einstein
La logique mène à tout, à condition d'en sortir!
--Alphonse Allais
Eppur se muove.
--Galileo
What is known, I strip away.
--Walt Whitman
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January 2014
Issue date: January 13, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Union vs. Non-Union: A View From the Trenches of the Mental Health Field - Glenn Reed
- Of The Mythic Worlds Of The Past - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- Green Guru (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- Heroic Lives - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Altered States Of Notoriety - Jan Baughman
- Overture - In Search of Mozart's Sublimity (Part I) - Raju Peddada
- Pals - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- Blips #140 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- Ashabdam - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte and Adele Ward
Issue date: January 27, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Tribal Drums Of The NFL & Super Bowlfuls Of Capitalistic Orgasms - Glenn Reed
- Notes On Cool - Jonah Raskin
- Waging War On Women - Jan Baughman
- Green Guru (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Overture - In Search of Mozart's Genius (Part II) - Raju Peddada
- Claudio Abbado 1933-2014 - Peter Byrne
- Reader Burnout - Book Review by Peter Byrne
- Home Is Where Your Heart Is - Book Excerpt by Karen Moller
- From the Book of Revelation - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
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February 2014
Issue date: February 10, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
Due to our relocation from Boonville to San Francisco on this very day (February 10) we are republishing two goodies but oldies, first a "Special Simone de Beauvoir" (originally published on February 11, 2008) and, second, a "George Bernard Shaw Retrospective" (first published on March 23, 2009). You can access those 10 articles from this page.
Issue date: February 24, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Putin Under Siege - Gilles d'Aymery
- Confessions Of The Grandson Of A Republican - Glenn Reed
- New York Day: Waiting For The Blizzard - Jonah Raskin
- New York II: A Valentine's Day Card - Jonah Raskin
- World War 3 Takes On Mortality - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- Living Room - Short Story by Peter Byrne
- The Tip Of Ecstasy! - Poetry by Raju Peddada
- Times of dreams - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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March 2014
Issue date: March 10, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- The Gall Of Vladimir Putin - Steven Hohensee
- Here We Go Again - Jan Baughman
- Crimea With Ockham's Razor - Gilles d'Aymery
- "Justice" Usually Is As Power Demands - Glenn Reed
- An Education Fit For The Elite (Part I of II) - Michael Barker
- Islamic Extremism And The Merchant Of Venice - Catherine Rosario
- Writing It Right In All Weather - Peter Byrne
- Harlem On His Mind: The Life and Work of Carl Van Vechten - Book Review by Jonah Raskin
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Humane and Transcendental Brilliance - Part I - Raju Peddada
- Dust and breath - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte & Vita Fabbro
- Letters to the Editor
Issue date: March 24, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Contrast Between Russia And The USA - Gilles d'Aymery
- A Tale Of Two "Socially Responsible" Corporations - Glenn Reed
- The Persistence Of Mathematics In Ethics And The Judgment Of Moral Character - Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
- An Education Fit For The Elite (Part II of II) - Michael Barker
- Sex And Politics Make For Strange Bedfellows - Book Review by Jonah Raskin
- Ankara: Goats And Power - Travelogue by Peter Byrne
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Inventive and Curative Magnificence - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Block-Notes - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
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April 2014
Issue date: April 7, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Ruling-Class Peace? - Michael Barker
- Bird Sounds And The Spirit Of Place - Glenn Reed
- The New World Of Expensive Speech - Jan Baughman
- How Plutarch Rescued Me - Raju Peddada
- Cold Quebec's Boiling Point - Peter Byrne
- Greek Myths - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
Issue date: April 21, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Ukraine And Canadian Prime Minister Harper's Hypocrisy - Walter Trkla
- "Millennial" Apathy & A World On the Cusp - Glenn Reed
- Blips #141 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
- A Hammer Against Complacency - Book Review by Gregory Elich
- The Vanished And Their Sold Memories - Part I - Raju Peddada
- Looking For Elias Along The Danube - Peter Byrne
- Vulnus - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- Letters to the Editor
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May 2014
Issue date: May 5, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Insomnia, The Wee Hours, & The Furthest City Light - Glenn Reed
- Another Week In The Culture Of Life - Jan Baughman
- Le Roi S'Amuse - Gilles d'Aymery
- A Writer On Her Own Path - Book Review by Paul Buhle
- The Museum Of Sentiments - Part II - Raju Peddada
- Burying Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) - Peter Byrne
- Pino's Tale - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
Issue date: May 19, 2014. A description of each published work and the Note from the Editors can be read in this Past Issue.
- Saying Goodbye To A Friend - Gilles d'Aymery
- "A Death In The Family" - Peter Byrne
- The Ineradicable Charles Marowitz - Jan Baughman
- To Hell With Mincing Words - Glenn Reed
- To Charles Marowitz - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Poetry by T.S. Eliot
In addition we republished a selection of Charles's contributions, which you can find in the Past Issue.
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June 2014
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September 2014
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November 2014
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December 2014
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