Cinema Paradiso When oh when is Greenville going to give itself an independent movie theater? Yesterday, I drove all the way to Asheville to watch the Fred Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at The Fine Arts, not because it isn’t playing here, which it surprisingly still is, but because I wanted some assurance […]
My fallback position – my only position – used to be that nothing we did at the ballot box mattered. Nothing we shouted in the street or wrote in our letters to the editor. Phone banking, door-knocking, meetings with elected representatives, all of it a waste of time. The system available to us, it seemed to me, was the political equivalent […]
Unless federal prosecutors bring an indictment against her before the July 25 convention, it now seems certain that Hillary Clinton will become the Democratic nominee. What remains to be seen is whether the same establishment tailwind that kept her ahead of Bernie will keep her ahead of Trump. I happened to be reading the last few chapters of Upton Sinclair’s Oil! last […]
