January 6th. A day of infamy. Insurrection Day. The day the “United” States of America died. Hyperbole? Maybe. But we need to have a reckoning if we ever expect to heal. WARNING. Parts of this article may be triggering. If you are struggling with anxiety and depression, you can find information and connection to help […]
Brynne VanHettinga
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 10 of a 10-part Series: What Are We To Do? What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience.” Hannah Arendt We might ask ourselves whether America is a […]
A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings: From the Powell Memo to the Eastman Memo and January 6th
Part 9 of a 10-part Series: The Pitchfork Politics of Conspiracy and Hate “The road to fascism and dictatorship is paved with failures of economic policy to serve the needs of the general public.” Tim Wu in The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (2018) On January 6th, it was mostly White […]
