Heavy Duty
On tariffs, the 'manosphere,' National Poetry Month, and Willa Cather
The Tariff
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How George H. W. Bush’s trade agreements revealed his second-term agenda.
Read “Bushism, Found” by Walter Russell Mead
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“In June, 1934, President Roosevelt signed an Act of Congress authorizing the Chief Executive to enter into reciprocal commercial agreements with other governments for the purpose of promoting international commerce.”
Read “High Tariff Versus Trade” by Cordell Hull
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“As for the tariff, was business ever so scared by a threatened tariff before?”
Read “Regulation, Good and Bad” by Edward Sandford Martin
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“[The tariff] also show[s] how, as long as such opportunities for private gain exist in our protective system, the public, with its general interests, will stand at a great disadvantage against private enterprise, with its incessant and pointed activity ever present at Washington, and ever watchful of the course and tendency of legislation.”
Read “The Tariff” by Henry Watterson
Manosphere of Influence
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Nearly twenty-six years ago, political essayist Barbara Ehrenreich and anthropologist Lionel Tiger debated the prospect of a matrilineal millennium.
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Is there a masculine cure for toxic masculinity?
Read “Men at Work” by Barrett Swanson
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“This figure—of the male prophet, the old shaman, the man whose words are dogma to his disciples—is as old as humanity itself.”
Read “Masculine Chaos” by Omer Aziz
National Poetry Month
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“She loves to gaze upon a crystal river,— / Diaphanous because it travels slowly; / Soft is the music that would charm forever; / The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Read “Not Love, Not War” by William Wordsworth
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“Solitude is like a rain. / It rises from the sea to meet the night; / It rises from the dim far-distant plain / Toward the sky (as by an old birthright), / And thence falls on the city from the height.”
Read “Solitude” by Rainer Maria Rilke”
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“They see / a cluster / of small / rubber / ducks & / scraps of / broken shells / & think / I’ll shit / there”
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“the wars they recorded were the wars they won / let me be plain with you / these portraitures are portraitures”
Read “Nomenclature for the Time Being” by Dionne Brand
Spotlight: Willa Cather
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One hundred fifteen years ago this month, Willa Cather’s short story “The Enchanted Bluff” was published in the magazine.