The Big Cats, Part X
On melting ice, online shopping, and dads with leaf-blowers
Behind the thick blue smudge there is a wall / of feds in camouflage. ...
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What Do Walls Do?
Reflections on William Callahan’s “Great Walls” — and on Filmmaking as an Ethnographic Method
What Callahan spurs us to challenge is the premise that walls are “problems” that need to be “solved” (Callahan 2018, 460). When Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it was meant to signal the end of the Cold War rivalry between a totalitarian East and a democratic West, a victory ...
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Border Crisis?
How American Policies Have Produced a Generation of Refugees
On October 18, 2018 President Donald J. Trump continued his detrimental practice of using Twitter to fuel the already hot immigration debate. He said, in part, “I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, ...
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President as Prisoner
Trump has walled himself into a losing position
Back in 1989 Bill Grover published a great book, The President as Prisoner. In that book, Grover argued that, regardless of who occupied the position of President, that person was likely to be seriously constrained by political pressures and institutional constraints. Politically, the president is constrained by powerful interest groups, especially ...
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