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...Communist Party in 1945 and even contributed poster designs to the cause. "My art is valid only insofar as it is opposed to the bourgeois ideal in whose name life is being extinguished," he said. Hergé admired Magritte, and even bought one of his paintings. Magritte, however, saw Tintin as too colonial, Catholic and conservative. In the 1930s, Hergé drew the cover for a political pamphlet for Léon Degrelle, leader of the Belgian fascists; at the same time, Magritte designed a caricature of Degrelle looking into a mirror and seeing an image of Adolf Hitler looking...
...what Naomi Klein had written in January 2000 about the American left: that it apparently “seemed surprised to learn that, contrary to previous reports, it did, in fact, still exist.” Although news reports tried to convince me that Republicans were in power, I saw very little Republican presence on campus, and didn’t know any personally. Although I would meet a few eventually, the political uniformity reinforced my notion of Harvard as a somewhat sheltered planet...
...system works within the community as well. When I last heard of my friend Harreld, he was well ensconced in a long-term relationship with a man. But when our paths crossed on Facebook earlier this year, I saw that he had been in a relationship with a woman for some time. I had no idea Harreld was a practicing bisexual...
...edged sword, no matter your sexual orientation. "I got brutally dumped recently," Harreld told me. "And I changed my relationship status to respect her wishes. But I didn't know that making that change would appear in everyone's feed and I certainly didn't want it to. Everyone saw that my relationship was over and commented on it." Ouch. Painfully inconvenient regardless of your sexual identity. As they say, "It's complicated...
...Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense Secretary who oversaw the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, saw little use for toting up enemy KIAs (those killed in action). "If you'll recall the Vietnam War, they had body counts that went on day after day after day," he said in 2006. "The implication of that was that you were winning if the body count went up and losing if the body count went down." Relying on such numbers distracts from the fact that the outcome of the war is more likely to be determined by the political will on each side. The body...