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Werner Mouton
Steinbeck on Monsters
Invoking Steinbeck’s “monsters born to human parents,” the essay laments leaders who starve and bomb children in Gaza, Iran and Ukraine while spending on war and neglecting food and medicine.
There Was No Golden Age
Referencing Weyl, the essay rejects myths of a bygone golden age, saying Trump’s MAGA exploits nostalgia and scapegoating and lets people ignore past injustices and avoid thinking about building future.