American democracy in chaos: Trump’s disruptive actions echo Mao’s Cultural Revolution
In the whirlwind of Trump’s brazen assault on Washington’s policies and practices, echoes of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution are flickering. Most starkly, the intimidation and sacking of the “leftist woke” officials by Trump’s zealous acolytes and young “Muskrats” bear eerily resemblance to the actions of Mao and his teenage Red Guards, who in 1966 began […]
Grace Paley on the Art of Growing Older
This article by Maria Popova was published on 3 September, 2015 in The Marginalian. “For old people,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in her sublime meditation on aging and what beauty really means, “beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is.” But who is the person […]