by Robin Kirk | May 22, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
From Monica Byrne’s blog A month ago, with the Hugo fracas in full swing, an editor at Wired wrote me and said, “If you have something to say, you have the platform.” Given Wired’s enormous readership, what an incredible thing. I wrote the piece in an afternoon,...
by Robin Kirk | Apr 27, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
I’ve rarely witnessed a fist fight between neighbors. Yet some days I feel like we fight constantly. Instead of using our fists, we battle with the words typed into that little email square we send off to the listserv. Sticks and stones seem somehow quaint in...
by Robin Kirk | Apr 20, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
FBI director James Comey has caused a dust up between the United States and Poland with a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post (and reprinted in the Raleigh News and Observer). Titled “The most frightening lesson from the Holocaust,” Comey calls the...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 29, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” Not being paid an administrator’s exalted salary, I have no intention of violating the sanctum...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 22, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” There’s no cure for the hungry plague, but in the end the plague becomes its own cure. M.R. Carey,...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 14, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
(from the April issue of Sojourners) There’s no better sequel to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of the torture report than Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s just-published Guantánamo Diary (Little, Brown and Company). This...
