Tim Barrus Blog
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TIM BARRUS NEW YORK TIMES
Dear Mr. Friedman, But. How. Do we contain the Gorgon. The Gorgon still has over seventy days in office to burn it all down. That will never happen, right. We should ignore the Gorgon as he burns the house to a char of bones. And no one dares suggest we…
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Censorship At The New York Times
When a publication publishes you at 10am — for the entire world to see — but by 11am, or less than an hour later, they unpublish you, they yank your work down, this is what is known in journalism as censorship. The reason the New York Times publishes me, and…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
We elected it. Nothing works. Our culture is irresponsible, and reprehensible. Our systems failed. Our politics failed. Our institutions failed. We failed. America writ large. Capitalism failed. We cannot wiggle out of the thing. The resposibiliuty for our own greed and racism. We created our own nightmare. We can’t even…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
The definition of evil has to do with indifference. When American democracy is indifferent to the American people, democracy itself risks being rendered as an amusing afterthought, one that cannot stand in the face of a dictaorship. Power is power, and people who have it will pull out the big…