Tim Barrus Blog
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London
I am a journalist/novelist. It is art’s responsibility to hold a mirror up to reality. It is my job to make you feel uncomfortable. It is not my job or inclination to make you comfortable. Yesterday, I ended my interview with US soldiers. I had reached my quota. I asked…
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Americans Are Apathetic
I was working in my office in the Hotel across the street from the Capitol building in Michigan. Our guests were legislators.The Secret Service wanted to speak to me. George Wallace was coming town and he was staying with us. I lived at the hotel, too. “There will be a…
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Tim Barrus: First, They Are Coming 4 Our Children
My Response to Michelle Goldberg: “It is perhaps beyond repair.” What is the perhaps about. Whenever I write two words – Civil War – that’s it. I am kicked out again. This, too, will get the boot. (It just achieved that status). I write because I have to. We are…
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Tim Barrus, the New York Times
DC was not my riot. We joined Antifa after a close friend and I were chased down by what appeared to be soldiers who were shooting at us. Portland was a war zone. I cannot say that they were soldiers, they had the drag, and guns. We didn’t stay long…