Monumental Instability, or War of the Memorials

Unmanned Drone (2022) by Kara Walker, a The Brick in East Hollywood, February 2026.

As if to underscore the barbaric, cruel madness of the attack on Iran—the clearest indication yet of the end of Pax Americana, the once painfully slow and now surprisingly rapid decline of US power and supremacy—we have the nation’s […]

Yes, There IS a Future!

Happy end of 2025 and beginning of 2026! It’s a New Year!

The title is not merely a self-exhortation, though I suppose it could be read that way. It’s been three months since I last posted something to my blog. I did write an essay about the Rise and Fall of the Junipero […]

Whither Modern Life?

Recent additions to Democracy Wall on Valencia Street.

I’m immersed in reading all the time, and much of what has attracted my interest in the past year or two are books that try to explain how the structure of capitalism is mutating during this violent, chaotic and barbaric time. No doubt we left […]