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Desmond Tutu, Father of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’

December 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died at the age of 90. He earned the respect and love of millions of South Africans and the world. He carved out a permanent place in their hearts and minds, becoming known affectionately as “The Arch.”

Liberal Flagellant: George Packer’s Last Best Hope

December 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

George Packer isn;t thrilled about living in any of the four Americas he describes and deconstructs in Last Best Hope, his latest book, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June.

George Packer’s “The Last best Hope,” published in June, attempts to explain how the United States devolved into the furies of Donald Trump’s last year–the pandemic, the BLM marches, the Jan. 6 insurrection–by diagnosing four separate Americas that no longer communicate. It’s a dour, guilt-ridden book by a liberal looking for penance in all the wrong places.

Why E.O. Wilson Was One of the Greatest Minds of the Last 100 Years

December 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Each of Edward O. Wilson’s seminal contributions fundamentally changed the way scientists approached these disciplines, and explained why E.O. – as he was fondly known – was an academic god for many young scientists. This astonishing record of achievement may have been due to his phenomenal ability to piece together new ideas using information garnered from disparate fields of study.

A Bit Less Normal: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You

December 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Sally Rooney's "Beautiful World, Where Are You," published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is the Irish writer's third novel.

The young, argumentative and Irish Sally Rooney is among the rising lights of English-language literature. She’s giving the novel of ideas a boost. The impulse her works command reminds me of the old E.F. Hutton commercials: “When EF Hutton talks, people listen.” Her third novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” is her most ambitious and least accomplished.

A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021

December 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s the pandemic that won’t end. Rising inflation. Climate disasters. A democracy that looks creakier by the day. But there’s unusual comfort out there.

Gov. DeSantis Seems Hellbent on Taking Us Back to the ’60s — the 1860s

December 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to call this the “Free State of Florida.” If he hasn’t yet wrapped himself in the Tenth Amendment or threatened secession, it’s only because he’s been too busy playing soldiers, organizing his private battalion, rewriting the past, and trying to destroy democracy.

What Kwanzaa Means for Black Americans

December 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Kwanzaa celebrations. Black Hour, CC BY-NC

Millions throughout the world’s African community start weeklong celebrations of Kwanzaa today, Dec. 27. For the African-American community, Kwanzaa is not just any “Black holiday.” It is a recognition that knowledge of Black history is worthwhile.

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.

Hubble 2.0: What You need to Know About the James Webb Space Telescope

December 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Engineers and scientists tested the entire telescope in an an extremely cold, low-pressure cryogenic vacuum chamber. NASA/Chris Gunn, CC BY

The James Webb Space Telescope was launched into space on Dec. 25, 2021, and with it, astronomers hope to find the first galaxies to form in the universe, will search for Earthlike atmospheres around other planets and accomplish many other scientific goals.

The Loneliness of a Dictator: Garcia-Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch

December 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Autumn of the Patriarch is a study in power unbound, unscrupulous, re-imagined rather than invented. History gave Garcia-Marquez too much material to need invention. Approaching 50 years since the novel published, it has recently come to feel more contemporary again.

How Charles Dickens Redeemed the Spirit of Christmas

December 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The title page from the first edition of A Christmas Carol. John Leech via Wikimedia Commons

Initially intending to voice his concerns about the poor as a pamphleteer, Dickens instead crafted a story about the redemption of an old miser, believing that it would garner more public attention and support. Today that story remains perhaps Dickens’ most celebrated work, A Christmas Carol.

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.

Is War With Russia Ahead?

December 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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A hot war with Russia is the last thing the Biden administration wants right now. Nor is an actual détente with Moscow on the horizon. But could Putin’s aggressive move raise the profile of U.S.-Russian relations in such a way as to lay the foundation for a cold peace?

What to Do About All This Holiday Stress on Your Relationship

December 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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You might already know stress can affect your own health, but what you may not realize is that your stress – and how you manage it – is catching. Your stress can spread around, particularly to your loved ones. Christmas is an especially contagious time, not just for the Omicron variant.

Louis C.K.: Sexual Misconduct, Cancel Culture and the Pursuit of Justice

December 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Cancel culture, as a type of internet vigilantism appears fundamentally incompatible with the actualization of restorative justice because it is oriented to punishment and exclusion, leaving no space for dialogue or personal change.

Manchin Killed Build Back Better Over Inflation Fears. He’s Wrong.

December 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

Build back bitter: Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia DEmocrat. (Senate Democrats)

What really matters is how much the bill would spend in excess of any taxes raised to pay for the program. The higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations that the House version of the bill calls for would reduce economic activity – by taking money out of the economy – offsetting some of the impact of the spending that would stimulate it.

What’s the Point of Holiday Gifts?

December 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Shouldn’t the holiday season simply be about family, friends and food? And wouldn’t everyone just be better off spending their own money on things they know they want? Gift exchanges may seem wasteful and impractical. But as social scientific research reveals, the costs and benefits of gift-giving aren’t what they seem.

Teaching to Transgress: bell hooks Will Endure

December 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

bell hooks at the New School discussing transgressive sexual practice. (Wikimedia Commons)

As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality. She taught us about white supremacist capitalist patriarchal values – giving both the words to define it and the methods to dismantle it.

DeSantis Wants to Deal With Florida’s Sea Level Rise Without ‘Left-Wing Stuff’

December 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Water encroachment on the barrier island and surrounding areas if seas were to rise 3 feet. See NOAA's simulator here.

At his press conference in Oldsmar last week, DeSantis emphasized how much of the taxpayers’ millions the state was going to spend on “resilience.” That’s a politician code word for coping with the symptoms of climate change, but not doing anything about what’s causing it.

Fruitcakes: Maligned and Misunderstood

December 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition, with 2 million sold each year, though a quip attributed to former “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson has it that “There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”

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 Problems With Banning Cell Phones in the Workplace

December 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Why shouldn't they have their cell phones? And why are blue collar workers targeted? (© FlaglerLive)

Bans on employees using cellphones are relatively common in workplaces such as factories, farms and fast-food chains. Such employer rules are legal, and there is relatively little that employees can do about it. But different situations have indicated the necessity for workers to have access to their phones, for safety’s sake.

Coffee, Good to the Last Drop? Don’t Be So Sure.

December 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

An untouched cup of coffee at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. (© FlaglerLive)

You’ve probably heard it before: drinking coffee is good for your health. Studies have shown that drinking a moderate amount of coffee is associated with many health benefits, including a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But while these associations have been demonstrated many times, they don’t actually prove that coffee reduces disease risk. In fact, proving that coffee is good for your health is complicated.

The White Flight Behind Native Americans’ 87% Population Growth

December 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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Birth rates among Native Americans don’t explain the massive rise in numbers. And there certainly is no evidence of an influx of Native American expatriates returning to the U.S. Instead, individuals who previously identified as white are now claiming to be Native American. This growing movement has been captured by terms like “pretendian” and “wannabe.”

China’s Ongoing Genocide of the Uyghurs

December 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Silent protests. (Kuzzat Altay on Unsplash)

After 18 months of deliberations and three hearings of evidence from witnesses and experts – including anthropologists, political scientists and international lawyers – the London-based Uyghur Tribunal has ruled that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide, by coercive birth control.

Tornadoes and Climate Change: The Twists Ahead

December 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

A tornado churns up dust in the sunset light near Traer, Iowa by Brad Goddard, Orion, Ill. (NOAA)

The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec. 10-11, 2021, was so unusual in its duration and strength, particularly for December, that a lot of people including the U.S. president are asking what role climate change might have played – and whether tornadoes will become more common in a warming world.

Early Data on Omicron: More Transmissible But less Severe

December 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Protective gear heading to South Africa last year. (US Africa Command)

Exponential rise in new Covid-19 cases from the Omicron variant in a South African province suggests the variant is highly transmissible. But hospitalisations and excess deaths have been lower than the rate of increase in new Covid cases, suggesting that the variant may cause less severe illness.

How Canada Is Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Schools

December 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Nurturing a heritage of hate at a school in Jasper County, texas. (Patrick Feller)

With ample data demonstrating the effects of systems that undermine educational opportunities of Black students, it’s clear that access to education isn’t equitable and inclusive. Here’s a model of targeted improvements based on strategic community engagement that school boards can learn from and enact.

Why is Inflation So High? 3 Questions Answered.

December 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: FRED

Consumer prices jumped 6.8% in November 2021 from a year earlier – the fastest rate of increase since 1982, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics published today. Here’s what’s driving the recent increase in inflation and how it affects consumers, companies and the economy.

How the Car and Oil Industry Knowingly Poisoned You for 100 Years

December 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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When GM began selling leaded gasoline, public health experts questioned its decision. One called lead a serious menace to public health, and another called concentrated tetraethyl lead a “malicious and creeping” poison. It made no difference.

Democrats’ Failure to Protect Abortion Rights

December 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

It's not enough to scrawl it on a wall. (Edson Chilundo)

Conservative Republicans started prioritizing a high court takeover, with the explicit aim of ending legal abortion, more than 40 years ago. Democrats and progressives stuck their heads in the sand. Women, denied autonomy over their own bodies, are poised to pay the biggest price.

‘It’s Stressful to Kill Somebody’: Health Workers Behind Assisted Dying

December 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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New legislation in Britain laying groundwork for legalizing assisted dying are part of a wider international movement towards formally allowing some form of assisted dying. That means addressing how and whether healthcare professionals will be involved in facilitating assisted dying, and the effect this may have on them.

The GOP Normalizes Islamophobia

December 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Rep. Lauren Boebert insinuating that Rep. Ilhan Omar could have been a suicide bomber isn’t just about an unhinged Congresswoman stoking the extreme fringe of the Republican base. The real issue is the ongoing normalization of Islamophobia in America, which has soared to frightening new heights since 9/11.

Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ and the Bizarre Role of Guns in American Culture

December 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A murder weapon shown in court in a recent case in Flagler County. (© FlaglerLive)

Stephen Sondheim, who died on Nov. 26, 2021, had a knack for using stage and song to explore America’s dark, violent underbelly. “Assassins” is a collective biography of the historical figures who attempted to assassinate U.S. presidents, four of them successfully.

Banning LGBTQ-Themed Books From Flagler Schools Is an Attempt to Erase Students Like Me. We Will Not Stand For It.

December 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Jack Petocz at the Nov. 16 demonstration he organized, holding a copy of "All Boys Aren't Blue." (© FlaglerLive)

Linking the vile and threatening language his student-led demonstration drew outside a school board meeting in November to the superintendent’s decision to ban an LGBTQ-themed book for now, Jack Petocz, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School, calls on the superintendent to reconsider the decision and consider its consequences.

Modern-Day Culture Wars Are Playing Out on Historic Tours of Slaveholding Plantations

December 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Discussions during plantation tours among visitors can often turn into visceral debates over whose history should be told or ignored. These tensions are part of an ever-growing work of criticism directed at sites that continue to omit the history of the enslaved community. Of the 600 plantations scattered throughout the South, only one, the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, focuses entirely on the experiences of the enslaved.

CNN’s Cuomo Ethics Problems

December 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Andrew and Chris Cuomo. (Wikipedia Commons and Thomas Hawk)

How CNN’s Chris Cuomo avoid conflicts of interest while pitching softball questions to his brother during the pandemic, much less by providing behind-the-scenes advice on how to deal with the sexual harassment scandal?

Liberals Must See Past the No-Exit Calvinism of Critical Race Theory

December 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

John Gast's "American Progress" (1872), one of the great emblems of American imperialism--and white supremacy--portrayed as a benevolent, inevitable force moving West.

Reactionaries have effectively fabricated a crisis over critical race theory. But on its own terms, CRT can be problematic. It rests on a deterministic view of human beings that should make anyone who believes in individual freedom uncomfortable. Liberals have yet to grasp that reactionary anger has a point, though CRT can still show the way out.

‘Schitt’s Creek’ Holiday Special: Johnny’s Menorah, Still Lit in Diaspora

December 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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“Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose” demonstrates how the omnipresence of Christmas has offered American Jews a variety of non-exclusive options for handling the holiday season: Ignore or distance themselves from Christmas, embrace (at least) its more secular aspects and bond with other non-Christian groups who may also feel like outsiders.

Four More Children Dead, and a Nation Shrugs. Again.

December 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Madisyn Baldwin, one of the four victims of the Nov. 30 attack, from a Gofundme image.

After every one of these shootings, we ask ourselves: How could this happen again? It is our national shame that we have become as accepting of it as we have. Lawmakers who refuse to act should be required to personally explain their inaction to the families of the dead. It is hard to see any other way for that cold-hearted resistance to crumble.

Plastics Trashing Oceans Have Their Biggest Source in US

December 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

only a small fraction of plastic in U.S. household waste streams is recycled. The study calls current U.S. recycling systems “grossly insufficient to manage the diversity, complexity and quantity of plastic waste.”

On a per capita basis, the U.S. produces an order of magnitude more plastic waste than China – a nation often vilified over pollution-related issues.And only a small fraction of plastic in U.S. household waste streams is recycled.

School Shootings Are At a Record High This Year. They Can Be Prevented.

December 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School is reverberating through state policy. (© NSF)

The shooting at Oxford High School was one of 222 school shootings in 2021, an all-time high, according to the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s K-12 School Shooting Database.

Supreme Court Will Eviscerate Roe v. Wade But Signals Split on What Comes Next

December 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The Supreme Court justices signaled a major shift on abortion law in arguments on a Missouri case today but the six conservative justices who hold the majority in the highest court seemed divided: Would they overturn the core right to abortion entirely or would they allow abortion to be limited by the states to the early stages of pregnancy?

American Library Association Condemns Broad Censorship of Books on Race and LGBTQ in Schools and Libraries

December 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

As in the rest of the country, the books targeted for bans by Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright are by or about marginalized people. (© FlaglerLive)

Some individuals and officials say the voices of the marginalized have no place on library shelves. Including in Flagler, they have launched campaigns demanding the censorship of books and resources that mirror the lives of those who are gay, queer, or transgender, or that tell the stories of persons who are Black, Indigenous or persons of color.

Anti-CRT Lawmakers Are Passing Pro-CRT Laws

November 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell is largely credited as the originator of critical race theory. (David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons)

Anti-CRT messaging has emerged as a signature – and potent – GOP political talking point. But while Republicans introduced 54 CRT-related bills across 24 states, most of these bills – if you take seriously their actual text – call for more CRT, not less.

Millions of Americans Are Struggling to Pay Their Water Bills. Time for an Aid Program.

November 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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A 2019 survey found that U.S. households in the bottom fifth of the economy spent 12.4% of their disposable income on water and sewer services. News reports suggest that for low-income households, this burden has increased during the pandemic.

‘Let’s Go Brandon’ and the Linguistic Jiujitsu of American Politics

November 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The epithet was brandished by individuals, many masked, most from out of town, who hurled obscenities at Flagler County students demonstrating against book bans at the Government Services Building earlier this month. (© FlaglerLive)

The enthusiastic adoption of the phrase by President Joe Biden’s detractors suggests that “Let’s go Brandon” is best described as a minced oath. These are euphemisms used in place of a taboo or blasphemous expression. Such oaths have a long history in English. Some Biden supporters are turning the phrase into one of support for him. And as a variant, some of the president’s supporters have begun to employ, “Thank you Brandon.”

Judge All Instances of Hatred and Bias Equally

November 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Time after time, if the aggressor is white and the victim is not, it automatically becomes a narrative about bigotry and white supremacy. The “Through the Looking Glass” moment came when Rittenhouse, who is white, shot three men, who were also white, and he’s still attacked as an example of white privilege. This is madness, and we are in societal quicksand.

How the Omicron Variant Was Found and What We Know So Far

November 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

South Africa has several laboratories that can grow and study the actual virus and discover how far antibodies, formed in response to vaccination or previous infection, are able to neutralise the new virus. This data will allow scientists to to characterize the new virus and develop counter strategies.

Flagler School Libraries Face Chilling Dangers Beyond Book Bans

November 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

If disingenuous were an undiscovered continent, Flagler County School Board member Jill Woolbright, above, would be its Columbus. (© FlaglerLive)

Book-banning doesn’t really exist: ban a book, and it gains more notoriety than ever. The danger ahead in Flagler schools is Board members Jill Woolbright’s and Janet McDonald’s attempt to keep certain books from even reaching library shelves before they’re bought, thus eliminating the glare of controversy. That kind of self-censorship is far more damaging to diversity on Flagler’s library shelves.

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