Trump and Vance: We Need to Finish This Drama and Undress These Actors.

Mike Magee “Chance made the situation; genius profited from it,’ says history. But what is chance? What is genius?” Leo Tolstoy from “War and Peace”, 1867. Trump and Vance wasted little time embarrassing America today. Following the game plan of “Professional Wrestling” they did their best to bully […]

Why, After 200 Years, Is Haiti This Impoverished?

Mike Magee This Spring, at the President’s College at the University of Hartford, I taught a timely course titled, “The History of Epidemics in America.” By way of introduction, I stated that “Epidemics are social, political, philosophical, medical and above all ecological. They are also narratives – with a beginning, middle and end, and a […]