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Pierre Tristam

Your Tax Dollars Are About to Fund Religious Schools, Salafist Madrassas and Satanic Temples

February 1, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 34 Comments

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Let’s examine why Saudi Arabia’s Islamists are so aroused over the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling by June that using public money to fund religious madrassas is perfectly fine. The court took on the case last week from Oklahoma, where an online Catholic school, St. Isidore of Seville, but really more of 7501 NW Expressway in Oklahoma City, across from Home Depot and the Mattress Firm Clearance Center, sued after it was denied a charter and tax dollars. 

American Trilogy: OJ Simpson, Louis Farrakhan, Donald Trump

January 25, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 25 Comments

On Oct. 3, 1995, after a trial that had lasted as long as a presidential election campaign, a jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Blacks cheered. Whites were horrified and angered that Blacks cheered. Blacks cheered even louder at whites being horrified. All they saw was white derangement syndrome. Sound familiar?

Jimmy Carter’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

December 29, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

President Jimmy Carter. (Library of Congress)

Contrary to his undeserved and simplistic reputation, Jimmy Carter was one of the better presidents of the 20th century. But Americans like their country to be run as a theme park. Annoyances like reality, responsibility and malaise have no place. Neither did Carter. The fantasists have been taking their revenge on him ever since, even as Carter’s legend grew in the 43 years since his presidency. He became the busiest ex-president in history, if still the least celebrated and the most shunned.

The Baalbek Ruins, Israeli Edition

December 1, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 6 Comments

The last six columns of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek in the foreground, and the Temple to Bacchus in the background. (© FlaglerLive)

The city of Baalbek in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley–the City of the Sun–was settled almost 10,000 years ago, and is famous for its long history and its Roman ruins, one of the architectural marvels of the world. To the author, it is wrapped up in memories of childhood and of a father who died decades ago, and now in renewed sorrows as Baalbek was again among Israel’s targets in the last few weeks of bombing.

Flagler and Gomorrah

November 8, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 41 Comments

Two cheers for Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

The outcome of local elections will affect us at least as much as anything that happens nationally. With that in mind it’s worth taking stock of our local political landscape post-apocalypse, because it’s a whole lot better than Gomorrah and, ironically, almost entirely Republican. 

Why Trump Beat Harris By 312 Electoral Votes

November 1, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 118 Comments

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Monday-morning-quarterbacking Democrats’ mistakes is a dead end. It wouldn’t have mattered what Harris did or who the Democrats ran. The result would have been the same. Trump didn’t make this moment. It was made for him, in no small part by liberalism’s abdication. The more liberalism projected self-loathing without a hint of pride in country or redemptive hope for it, the more it ceded the ground to “a bottom-up populist revolt” let by a strongman who reflects their belief: America’s democratic moment is over.

The Big Read:
Deconstructing J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Fictions

September 27, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 28 Comments

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When J.D. Vance went from calling Trump “America’s Hitler” and calling himself a Nevertrumper to calling him a man of “extraordinary vision” as he accepted the nomination for  vice-president, the apparent change was mistaken for the apotheosis of an opportunistic pivot and a betrayal of his memoir’s affective nuances. But it was in fact the reflection and perfection of a skill Vance displayed throughout “Hillbilly Elegy,” where he constructed a persona scaled to a chameleon’s tongue. The book is the Rosetta Stone of the Vance we see today.

Kamala Harris? Don’t Bet on the Hype.

September 11, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 83 Comments

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Kamala Harris followed a script Tuesday. It was a solid, made-for-TV script. It wasn’t a knock-out. Trump lost from own goals, which his flagellant faithful always forgive him. If you’re a Harris fan you probably shouldn’t raise your hopes even with that Swift endorsement. It’s not just the electoral college. It’s an electorate inebriated on phony nostalgia, desperate for a nonexistent fantasy that Trump can nevertheless sell like bibles and steaks.

The “School Choice” Swindle Is Demolishing Public Schools

August 16, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 73 Comments

Paul Renner channeled his inner Jerry Falwell school choice. (© FlaglerLive)

“School choice” is an orchestrated demolition of public schools and the social contract. The focus-group euphemism masks the thieving of tax dollars to subsidize private schools, transforming what was once an aspiration of fringe Christian and anti-government militants into state doctrine. Flagler County schools are losing close to $11 million this year to “choice.”

A Note To My Grandson

January 4, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

Felix at T plus a few minutes after 7 Phoenix time this morning, 9 a.m. Palm Coast time.

Well dear Felix, this is the day chosen for you–as so much has been since before your conception, as almost everything will be for the next dozen years, as most things will be after that–to be born into this, not quite our world: you arrived as scheduled a little after 7 this morning, your time.

The Kissinger Delusion

November 30, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 43 Comments

Henry Kissinger with Egypt's Anwar Sadat in an undated photo from the early 1970s. (Florida Memory)

This man’s death, way overdue–Kissinger lives to be 100 but Hank Williams, born the same year, dies at 30?–is a tragedy only in one sense: despite the copious and undisputed record about one of the most brutal men of the 20th century, Kissinger is still garnering bootlicking tributes. The tragedy is that America does not learn. It rinses the blood and repeats. 

Condemn Palestinians’ Genocidal Rhetoric–and Israel’s Genocidal War

November 12, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 49 Comments

There is no question that "river-to-the-sea" emblems and rhetoric, like that t-shirt sold at an Arab fest in Orlando last May, is a genocidal, anti-Semitic call for the eradication of Israel. (© FlaglerLive)

There’s unquestionably some river-to-the-sea anti-Semitism out there. It should be and is being denounced. But conflating all criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is itself a form of bigotry that places Palestinian lives beneath contempt and Israeli policy above reproach, even as swaths of Gaza in November 2023 look like Dresden in February 1945 and anti-Palestinian rhetoric in media and government continues to be indistinguishable from the vilest racism. 

Why Will Furry Is Demolishing the Flagler Youth Orchestra

June 6, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 56 Comments

Flagler County School Board member Will Furry’s posturing about the Flagler Youth Orchestra has nothing to do with the FYO, of which he knows nothing and has no interest. It has to do with FYO’s director’s last name–Tristam–and Furry’s willingness to sacrifice a star district program over his vindictiveness for FlaglerLive.

My Date With Jerry Springer

April 29, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 5 Comments

Jerry Springer in his office during our interview in November 1998. (© FlaglerLive)

In November 1998 I was traveling the country on a year-long assignment and at that point working on a piece on American discourse. I’d chosen Illinois as a prism: the various grounds of the Lincoln Douglas debates at one end and the Chicago-based Jerry Springer Show at the other. Springer agreed to let me hang out with him half a day, interview him and attend his show, thankfully not as a guest.

Matanzas Assault Case: A Miscarriage of Justice Hardens Before Our Eyes

March 2, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 121 Comments

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The public reaction to 17-year-old Brendan Depa’s assault of Joan Naydich at Matanzas High School is mostly compassionate and balanced. The more strident reaction among elected officials–the State Attorney, school board members–is not not. Elected officials are not only exploiting the situation. They’re exploiting Depa. They want blood.

American Impressions 1 | The Day Before America

December 25, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 30 Comments

The Cedars of Lebanon. (© FlaglerLive)

In the first of nine installments of his American Impressions series–a reporter’s journey across the 50 states–Pierre Tristam fills in details that marked his youth in war-torn Lebanon and defined his outlook before migrating to the United States and beginning a process of discovery that continues to this day.

The Christian Arrogance Behind Praying Coach’s Supreme Court Case

June 30, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 39 Comments

A Muslim prayer rug with the design of a mihrab replicating the niche in the wall oriented toward Mecca. (Sinan Toy on Unsplash)

Christian coach Joseph Kennedy’s prayer at a public school football field’s 50-yard line is not about religious freedom. It is not about God. It is not even about praying. It’s about imposing one version of Christianity in an increasingly pluralist society in one of the last places where that kind of favoritism has no place. It is intolerance by exclusivity. 

My Son Leaves

June 26, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 32 Comments

My children in front of Jacques Louis David's "Death of Socrates" ("La Mort de Socrate,"1787), at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The painting has played a central role in their upbringing. (© FlaglerLive)

Today’s the day. We’re taking our son to UCF. There will be bleakness. This day has been hurtling toward us since he was born. It was once a distant meteor, invisible to the naked heart. But impact is today at 3:30 p.m.

An American Tragedy: The Roe Regression

June 24, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 66 Comments

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In right-to-life theology, the woman’s right is non-existent. She’s a vessel. Pro-life? It might help us to look beneath our legal and social burquas once in a while. It’s not pretty, and it sure as hell isn’t nearly as moral or pro-life as you think. 

Yes, Current Rules Give Transgender Women Athletes an Unfair Advantage. But Bans Aren’t the Answer.

March 27, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 23 Comments

Lia Thomas last week before winning the 500. (YouTube/NCAA)

There is something unfair about Lia Thomas, the University of Pennsylvania star swimmer and transgender woman, winning races and breaking records, and there is something rational in calls by some of her competitors–and by some transgender athletes themselves–for a rule change that addresses both fairness and inclusion.

The GOP Is Using ‘Parental Rights’ to End Public Education as We Know It

February 21, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 38 Comments

Florida's Parents' Bill of Rights capsizes ethical norms, placing parental rights ahead of those of children. (Stephen Harlan on Unsplash)

The Florida GOP is using the Parents’ Bill of Rights to weaponize a minority of insurrectionist parents against schools, giving parents the right to violate privacy and autonomy where it counts most at school: between students and teacher. No wonder there’s a teacher exodus. It’s just what the GOP wants. Destruction from within. 

Americanisms: Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street and Babbitt

January 2, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street" and "Babbitt" appeared in 1920 and 1922 to immense acclaim. The Library of America reissued the two novels in one volume in 1993, and re-issued three more a few years later.

Today we read the Sinclair Lewis of “Main Street,” “Babbitt,” “Elmer Gantry” and “It Can’t Happen Here” not for literary value but the way Margaret Mead studied the Balinese character–for ethnographic insights. Lewis’s novels are a window into an America not nearly as dated as his reputation. 

Eulogy for Nature: Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire

January 1, 2022 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

Edward Abbey, who died in 1989, published Desert Solitaire in 1968.

Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire,” published in January 1968, worthy of any top-100 list of the best books of the last hundred years and an essential read–and re-read-today, is a meditation, a polemic, a manifesto, a provocation, a valentine and an elegy to the red desert and to American wilderness.

Our Thirty Years’ War: Schlesinger’s The Disuniting of America

December 26, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

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What historian Arthur Schlesinger had detected in 1992 in a few trends is now orthodoxy–from both sides, neither for the better. The “ethnic rage” of diversity-preaching liberals and the fundamentalist, doctrinaire “monoculturalism” of conservatives has the country in a state of paralysis. Schlesinger wanted a renewed melting pot. But that’s not the solution.

Patriotism Recovered: Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country

December 24, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 4 Comments

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“Achieving Our Country” is an energizing manifesto, a reminder that we are not as good as we think we are, and, atrocious as we can be,  not nearly as bad, either. We are merely unachieved. With a little less despair, a little more affection, even–heaven forbid–a bit of patriotism, however defined but equally respected we can achieve more.

Grace from the Crime of Punishment

December 17, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 11 Comments

Joey Renn had his Beccaria. Most defendants get Hammurabi. (© FlaglerLive)

Under the appealing but misguided credo of victims’ rights, prosecutors reach plea deals giving disproportionate weight to what the victim’s family wants. The defendant can end up either with a savior, as Joey Renn did this week in Flagler, or, more often, a gang of rage. A person’s fate should never depend on a dice throw between grace and vigilantism.

The Flagler School Board’s Shameless War on Equity

November 13, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 34 Comments

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The Flagler school board doesn’t believe in equality anymore. The administration, out of fear and misplaced pragmatism, is abandoning the word “equity” and replacing it with a bromide of a euphemism–“student success”–in appeasement of a faction led by School Board members Jill Woolbright and Janet McDonald, the same board members targeting books and instructional materials with anti-racism and other minority-oriented themes.

Corporal Punishment Is Child Abuse. Florida Law Must Stop Protecting It.

November 7, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

TT's skull fracture when he was 20 months old, as shown to the jury in the trial of Deviaun Toler, 29, who was found guilty of aggravated child abuse at the end of October in a trial in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

Under Florida law, child abuse is legal as long as the violence doesn’t amount to intentional, malicious harm. There is no age cut off. There are no limits on what means are used to brutalize a child. The law is a leftover from barbaric days.

End the Offensive Discrimination Against Workers: Yes to Commercial Vehicles in Palm Coast Driveways

September 17, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 131 Comments

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Palm Coast’s prohibition against small, van-size commercial vehicles in residential driveways is outdated and discriminatory, especially targeting blue-collar workers while refusing to recognize the vastly changing geography of work. This isn’t a majority vote issue. It’s a workers’ rights issue.

9/11: The Road Not Taken

September 11, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 3 Comments

In Washington Square Park in Manhattan, an American flag turned emotional message board in the days after the 9/11 attacks. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

The military and political misuses of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were bound to have bewildering consequences for the nation’s budget and its sense of itself as a free and peaceful society, absent the prevailing of wise, more prudent choices. Those choices did not prevail.

The Forever Failures

August 16, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 23 Comments

An airman guards a C-130J Super Hercules during cargo loading and unloading operations in Afghanistan, 2019. (Air Force Staff Sgt. Keifer Bowes)

President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is welcome news, in one sense. Our part of the war will finally be over. But it’s 20 years too late. And his claim that we achieved our goals is absurd. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban won. We lost another war where we did not belong.

Palm Coast Survives Its Own Big Lies. For Now.

August 1, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 14 Comments

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The big lies lost. But Palm Coast isn’t out of the woods. Alan Lowe may have been rejected by 73 percent of the electorate, but David Alfin’s 36 percent win, with less than 10 percent of the actual electorate, is hardly a rousing victory for a campaign that won more by default than acclamation, with incendiaries like Ed Danko and Victor Barbosa still on the council.

The Sleaziest Generation

July 23, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 109 Comments

The memorial to the dead of Covid near RFK Stadium in Washington. (Ron Cogswell)

This fourth wave of covid is ravaging the state. It was entirely preventable but for glib, “don’t Fauci my Florida” recklessness and the militancy, disinformation and poisonous selfishness of the unvaccinated. This is on them.

Critical Rage Theory

June 12, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 51 Comments

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Critical race theory has been around almost 50 years and went mainstream 25 years ago, but Trumpist Republicans are discovering it only now, passing laws in several states to ban the teaching of critical race theory without understanding the first thing about it, but proving with every ban that it is less theory than fact.

After Holland

May 24, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 20 Comments

A memorial for former Palm Coast Mayor Jon Netts earlier this year sharpened the sense that the city was heading toward a fork in its direction, possibly a distance away from the direction Netts and his follower, Milissa Holland, at the podium, set. (© FlaglerLive)

The resignation of Milissa Holland and the coming special election for mayor puts Palm Coast at a forking path between the course Holland set and a more radical change in a different direction. The two views seem to be represented by Alan Lowe and David Alfin, the leading contenders for the seat.

What Stolen Election Diehards Owe Holocaust Deniers

May 2, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 28 Comments

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Holocaust denialism’s dregs on the fringe don’t get much attention because responsible institutions from publishers to campuses to media organizations kept them in their gutter. Election deniers are owed no less.

The Odious Victor Barbosa

April 8, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 40 Comments

Victor Barbosa. (© FlaglerLive)

An examination of Palm Coast Councilman Victor Barbosa’s accusation of “corruption” against Manager Matt Morton reveals it to be baseless and defamatory, while Barbosa’s own methods, from trying to get city employees fired, meddling in administrative business, blindsiding the council and shaming of residents in the city’s name, raise questions about his own understanding of, or fitness for, the job.

Lysenko, Stalin and Trump

March 13, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 48 Comments

Trofim Lysenko, left, speaking at the Kremlin in 1935, with Joseph Stalin standing, right. (Wikimedia Commons)

On the one-year mark of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump’s malicious, politically motivated anti-science handling of a calamity that has killed more than half a million Americans so far recalls the alliance between fake Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko and Stalin, which led to the death of millions.

The Golden Rule Is Not Cancel Culture

March 5, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 48 Comments

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The Dr. Seuss estate’s decision to pull six books from reprints has nothing to do with cancel culture. That pair of terms has become its own dogmatic dumbbell anyway. Our misplaced nostalgia for books we were so fond of isn’t more important than the golden rule of looking out for our neighbors, to whom the same nostalgia translates as insult or put-down.

Addiction Is Not a Crime. The Drug War Is.

February 20, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 53 Comments

Every defendant a Josef K. (© FlaglerLive)

To continue with our cruel and sadistic drug war is the daily crime. The only way out is to decriminalize all drugs, treat, repair and, somehow, atone for lawmakers’ and the judicial system’s half-century assault on their own citizens. 

Trump’s Suicide Bomber Act

November 25, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 59 Comments

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Liberals would be fools to think the election was a turning point. The next four years will be as much a trial of democracy as the last four, just more diffuse, the cancer cells of Trumpism poisoning states and localities, as we’ve already seen locally in the last couple of years. Not the America we know? If you’ve been paying attention since 1980, it’s exactly the America we know.

Who’s Afraid of a $15 Minimum Wage?

November 8, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 42 Comments

In-N-Out Burger, the 75-year-old California chain, starts its employees at over $13 an hour. It does not have $20 burgers. (Mike Mozart)

Forget assumptions. Forget fear-mongering PR releases chambered in baseless claims that a $15 minimum wage will cost jobs. When the most extensive analysis on the subject shows 20 times more people will live better than lose jobs, it’s case closed.

I Endorse Jacinda Ardern

October 8, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 23 Comments

Jacina Ardern, covid's nemesis. (DonkeyHotey)

What country of 5 million has 300 fewer overall coronavirus cases than Flagler County, seven fewer covid-related deaths and zero mendacious elected officials who pat themselves on the back in the face of infections, suffering and cavalier attitudes?

Beirut’s Object Lesson of Weaponized Incompetence

August 6, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 19 Comments

An old house in Beirut's Gemmayze district, half a mile from the port and the blast site. (© Myrna Boulos Jacquin for FlaglerLive)

The blast that leveled huge swaths of Beirut Tuesday was the result of years of criminal negligence and serves as an object lesson in government incompetence and indifference to public safety–not just in Lebanon.

The “Chinese Virus” Slur

May 29, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 44 Comments

Trump in China in 2017, when he behaved. (White House)

Calling Covid-19 the “Chinese virus” has nothing to do with geographical correctness and everything to do with ideological motives tapping into a century and a half of anti-Asian bigotry.

HIPAA Heist: Lethal Privacy In the Age of Coronavirus

April 2, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 14 Comments

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Misapplications and misinterpretations of the federal medical privacy law known as HIPAA are conspiring to kill more of us than otherwise would die from the coronavirus. And officials are taking advantage of the law to cloak their failures.

Covidnotes: Voyager

March 28, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

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If it’s perspective we’re looking for in the age of coronavirus, we could do worse than looking to Voyager 1 and 2, emissaries from Florida in another century, whose language and distance remind us of our random place in the universe.

Close the Damn Beach Already

March 19, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 74 Comments

Visas to the virus: Flagler Beach this week. (© FlaglerLive)

By keeping the beaches open, Flagler and Flagler Beach officials are wanting it both ways. They’re sending contradictory messages and enabling irresponsibility. They’re issuing visas to the virus.

Coronavirus Prevention Is Not Overreaction: Flagler Schools Should Extend Spring Break

March 12, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 47 Comments

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With the coronavirus and its many knowns and unknowns, what may look like an overreaction today is the most effective form of prevention, and should not be given the chance to look like playing catch-up weeks from now. 

Misplaced Inquisitions: Mayor Holland, Coastal Cloud and the Palm Coast Observer

March 4, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 32 Comments

Mayor Milissa Holland anchored a 90-minute segment at Monday's Palm Coast City Council meeting, devoted entirely to refuting allegations about the city's relationship with Coastal Cloud, and the mayor's role. The mayor is a company employee. (© FlaglerLive)

Mayor Milissa Holland and Coastal Cloud Co-owner Tim Hale repeatedly–and unfairly–invoked Palm Coast Observer Editor Brian McMillan’s name in poor light during a 90-minute city council segment devoted entirely to refuting critical allegations about the city’s contract with the company.

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