Evangelical Churches Create Celebrities, While Mainliners Get Shy. Why?
"We cannot imagine being proud to see one of our mainline authors, from our subculture, on the shelf at Walmart. In many ways, our objections to celebrity are a veiled way of talking about class.”
Architecture and The Unlamented End of ‘Modernism’
"Making Dystopia" makes me wonder if Modernism -- the word itself is a marvel of marketing -- may be about to fade from favor and be "deconstructed" like so many other imposed-from-above cultural values.
Books: Sound Transit’s Arduous Trek to Building Rail Transit
Approving a fixed-rail rapid transit for a city is one of the most contentious decisions that an urban populace can make. In Seattle, rail proposals were defeated at the election polls in 1968, 1970, and 1995. And it was still difficult after that.
Books: A New Crime Blogger In Town
You can practically smell the salty tang in the air and taste the coffee in one of the author's favorite cafes. It's a promising debut.
Why Do Christian Evangelicals Support Trump And Not Buttigieg?
"If mainstream media figures believe that Mayor Pete speaks the same Christian language as Trump’s Evangelical base, they need to think again. He’s a sincere proponent of a faith that is very different from theirs.”
Books: A Seattle Historian on How the West Rescued a Starving Russia
I was shocked by this story — it was so dramatic, moving, powerful, and historically important — yet few Americans, and even fewer Russians know about it.
Books: David Guterson’s “Turn Around Time” – Nature’s Call To Arms
"Turn around time is an alpinist’s notion – that preplanned moment when, no matter what, it’s time to reverse course and head back. The principle acknowledges an unstoppable coming darkness."
Books: Anarchism In Its Many Flavors
Insurrectionary anarchists believed that capitalism would be overthrown by a spontaneous violent revolt by the workers. During that revolt, the workers would reorganize work along egalitarian lines and create a utopian society.
Books: A New Classic of Northwest Logging and Radicalism
If Norwegians and Swedes laid down the legends of the Puget Sound country, Finns were their counterparts in southwest Washington and northwest Oregon in lands drained by the mighty Columbia.
BOOKS: The Donald as Il Duce
Mussolini’s career ended badly, his desecrated body hung from a rafter by some of the same people who had cheered at his rallies. But while he lived, he built a cult of personality that foreshadowed that of Donald Trump.
