Dear TF Readers,
For the next two months, Toward Freedom will be publishing three articles per week instead of four. This isn’t a sign that we’ve ran into trouble, in fact TF is doing better than ever. Our readership is growing and the fund drive was huge success.
This new publishing schedule was set up in part so I (the editor) can focus on another project. I’ve relocated from
Dwight Macdonald would have been 100 this year, 2006. Had he lived, he would have been asked to say a few words about the state of the world, about the editing of political journals, and about the state of American culture. His replies would have been short and satirical. As he wrote "Great ideas can only be expressed in a great style. There is no such thing as a clear message delivered in a confused style." He was a master of the short essay.
It is the 21st century - the age of terrorism and 'long wars.' Yet in the US and abroad, nuclear power, that 20th century energy behemoth, is quietly coming back. If successful, it threatens to plunge the global populous into unseen levels of darkness and despair.
Marcela Dávila hands us hardhats and leads the way toward the intake pumps. Over raging vats of liquid, she explains how water makes its way from the River Suquía to the taps and toilets of her fellow citizens in Córdoba, Argentina.
On the May 23rd edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, correspondent Casey Wian characterized Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to The United States as the "Vicente Fox Aztlan tour." In doing so, Wian dredged up an old conspiracy theory: reconquista, or the belief that Mexicans seek to retake the Southwest by mass immigration.
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