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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 10th, 2020
…Two American Con Men With An Insatiable Appetite For WealthPhineas Taylor Barnum was born poor in 1810 in a rural village in Connecticut where survival was determined by cunning, smarts, drive, and ruthlessness. He had an insatiable appetite for wealth. Some say it was from when he learned to count.…
by HPR Contributor | Last Word | May 9th, 2020
…by Michael Str!keWe got the news just over two weeks ago. The state of North Dakota was going to reopen for business on May 1st. Restrictions and guidelines were promised by both the state and by our own management and owners of the restaurant I work for. I’m a kitchen…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | May 7th, 2020
…#18 of On Tyranny: Be Calm when the unthinkable arrives – “Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension…
by HPR Contributor | Editorial | May 5th, 2020
…by Sofia Makarova and Massimo Sassi The global pandemic is an incredibly challenging time for many. Nearlyone in every three Americans’ jobs have been affected, whether a temporary layoff, a permanent job loss, or a reduction in hours and/or pay. Most universities and schools haveclosed down across the country in…
by HPR Contributor | Writer's Block | May 5th, 2020
…by Debra Marquart marquart@iastate.edu A few years ago, I was giving a talk at the Fargo Public Library about researching and writing my book, The Horizontal World, which is a memoir about growing up a rebellious farmer’s daughter on a North Dakota wheat farm. In the 1970s, I was a college…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 3rd, 2020
…Swift: “A Good Fat Child Will Make Four Dishes Of Excellent Nutritive Meat”When Donald the Lyin’ King proposed that COVID-19 might be able to be controlled by injecting bleach, Lysol, sanitizers and other disinfectants into the body, the very idea was so nut-crazy I thought of two satiric works of…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 2nd, 2020
…As alternative viewing strategies for avid moviegoers seeking fresh content continue, the South by Southwest filmmakers who opted to join the Amazon Prime collection have benefited this week from attention that would have otherwise been more limited by the in-person version of the Austin, Texas showcase. One of the best…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | April 30th, 2020
…History and Liberty: “On the one hand is the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy – a self-induced intellectual coma…On the other hand there is the politics of eternity – a longing for past moments that never really happened during…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 26th, 2020
…Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds: “Because We Know Who You Are….In 1944 as a prisoner of war in a German labor camp M/Sgt Edmonds was the leader of the American prisoners. One morning at roll call the German commander demanded that all the Jews in the formation step forward. Edmonds said:…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 26th, 2020
…Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s noteworthy feature debut as writer-director examines, with a degree of precision and deliberateness that would impress Alfred Hitchcock, the actions of a young woman who consumes inedible objects as a way to attain some measure of control in her suffocating marriage to a wealthy man. The disorder, identified…