Probes
John Harris remembers poet Ken Belford.
The rightwing populist tsunami didn’t happen; Greens blossom; Europe fragments, pro-EU majority maintained.
Singing the Lord’s song in a strange land.
POTUS takes a snooze.
Bob Rowan tells a free speech story about a too-little-known American philosopher, Alexander Meiklejohn.
How to keep thinking and acting during and after the Apocalypse. Dan Gawthrop has a few practical suggestions.
Old Age and Writing are disturbed by thought. Three George Stanley poems.
In Italy, La Dolce Vita turns sour; in Germany, “stability” is still in fashion; in Switzerland, yodel-oh.
German chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term, the Far Right won seats in Parliament for the first time since Hitler. Dooney’s is on-site to read the tea-leaves.