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Hannah Arendt: Philosophical and Moral Anchor

Reflections Rich Wandschneider - September 15, 2025 6

Her genius would link the politics of the day with older thought, culminating in the 1951 publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Totalitarianism, said Arendt, was something new, something beyond old concepts of autocracy and dictatorship, because it was “total,” its reach extending to the all-encompassing remanufacture of truth.

Elsewhere

The Genius of Italian Shutters

Mark Hinshaw - September 14, 2025 0

Elsewhere

End of Summer: Mule Days, Gen Z Goes to Church and Ed Sullivan

Anthony B. Robinson - September 13, 2025 3

Politics

Deep in the Republican Brain: The Politics of Fear

Dick Lilly - September 12, 2025 17

Politics

Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?

Anthony B. Robinson - September 11, 2025 7

Politics

So Here’s a Strategy: Seattle-as-Hellhole

Joel Connelly - September 11, 2025 2

Politics

Double-Barrel Outrage Watch: The Dismantlements of MAGA and MAHA

Mort Kondracke - September 10, 2025 0

Politics

Deep in the Republican Brain: The Politics of Fear

Dick Lilly - September 12, 2025 17

For a Republican Congress member or Senator, the effect is paralyzing. It’s fear, fear that goes far beyond just worries about losing an election, fear of reputation destroyed, fear of lost – forever – allies and friends, fear of lies wrongly asserting criminal acts (mortgage fraud, anyone?).

Olympia Update: Guns and Gas

Paul Queary - September 12, 2025 0

Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?

Anthony B. Robinson - September 11, 2025 7

So Here’s a Strategy: Seattle-as-Hellhole

Joel Connelly - September 11, 2025 2

Double-Barrel Outrage Watch: The Dismantlements of MAGA and MAHA

Mort Kondracke - September 10, 2025 0

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Arts

What Broadway Musicals have to say about our Difficult Conflicts

David Armstrong - September 7, 2025

The Surprising Origins of America’s Best-Loved, Most Misunderstood Song

John de Graaf - July 22, 2025

Rising from the Ashes: The Beloved Book-It Returns

Ted Olinger - July 17, 2025

Review: Seattle Chamber Music Society Festival 2025

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Poets of the Pacific Northwest

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The Art of Food Kitchens

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Review: Seattle Opera’s Luscious “Tosca”

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PULSE

Nothing Left but the Killing?

Anthony B. Robinson - September 14, 2025 4

On the Mast: Trump — The “President of Peace”?

Tayloe Washburn - September 13, 2025 0

Olympia Update: Guns and Gas

Paul Queary - September 12, 2025 0

Epstein Survivors: Release the Files!

Jean Godden - September 7, 2025 1

Firenze’s Morning Coffee Ritual

Peter Miller - September 6, 2025 1

On the Mast: A Ticking Time Bomb in the China Seas?

Tayloe Washburn - September 5, 2025 0

On the Mast: U.S. Allies and Appeasing Putin in Ukraine

Tayloe Washburn - September 3, 2025 0

Hannah Arendt: Philosophical and Moral Anchor

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So Here’s a Strategy: Seattle-as-Hellhole

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Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?

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Technology

Clock’s Ticking: Six Reasons Why TikTok Shouldn’t be Banned

Wendy Liu - January 9, 2025 9

As The New York Times characterized it, this is a case of threats to national security vs protection of free speech.

The Big Sort: How Will AI Affect Submissions to Magazines?

Reconnecting with our Technology Roots @ a Georgetown Museum

Tools or Weapons: What the Internet Hath Wrought

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Health

My Reservations About Medically Assisted Dying

Anthony B. Robinson - September 9, 2025 3

Being human has something to do with accepting our limits and finitude, that we aren’t really much in control, or at least as much as we’d like to think. It involves experiencing our shared vulnerability as mortals.

Blue City Blues: Getting Real on Involuntary Commitment

Sandeep Kaushik and David Hyde - 2

The Impatient Patient: An Operating Manual

Joel Connelly - 10

“Incurring the Wrath of a Holy God”: Alabama Court Redefines “Children”

Jean Godden - 5

Bring Back Asylums?

Abe Bergman - 11

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Environment

On the Mast: To Save the Planet, Do Reindeer have to Die?

Tayloe Washburn - August 29, 2025

Climate Changing Like it’s 1988

Joel Connelly - August 13, 2025

How to Save Orcas? A Report Says “Old Fish”

Dan Chasan - July 23, 2025

When Texas-Size Weather Messes with Texas

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An All-Out Attack on our Forests and Wildlife (Once it’s gone…)

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Lynda Mapes: Ancient Forests Speaking

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Saw, Baby, Saw? Trump’s Emergency Threat to our Forests

Dan Chasan -

Cities

Not There: Why Affordable Housing in Seattle is Busting

Bruce Ramsey - September 9, 2025 6

The Housing Levy money is “leveraged” with private money in order to build more units. But to attract private investors, the projects need tenants who are not poor. Hence the focus on “workforce housing.”