As the World Turns

The made-for-TV melodrama General Fauci has aired for a year and a half. Its storyline of a global pandemic, mimicking the fantasy narratives of the “We’re-all-gonna-die-unless-somebody-from-science-saves us” pandemic movies of recent years, has a twist. Instead of the pandemic creating zombies, the pandemic mitigation methods – masks and vaccines – creates zombies. The main character…

They Will Hammer Swords into Plowshares…

  … And so it is at Cantigny Park: A repurposed “V”, having sundered war and peace, Furrowed the way for the promise of seed, The mortal Spade, the top layer of soil it cut loose, The Implement of war having been turned from its use, To summon daylight onto a field and hope’s release.…