by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
Gig Harbor, Wash. Anybody worried about the state of American democracy – and who isn’t? – could take heart at the political party conventions now taking place around the country. Conventions are democracy at its most participatory. A first-time...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
A year of living verbally with a French roommate’s insistent ‘whys’ suggests how polarized Americans could fill their divide with light Gig Harbor, Wash. We are, as polls tell us and pundits reinforce, Polarized Nation. En route to the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Excerpt
I. In the fat Age of Pleasure, Wealth, and Ease, Sprung the rank Weed, and thriv’d with large Increase. Alexander Pope writing in the 18th century states it for our own cultural moment: Rather than a Renaissance, the “rank weed” thrives. Seen over...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
If it is possible to parse horror from horror in the hell of our war in Iraq, Margaret Hassan’s murder stands apart. Not because she was a woman, and not because she was a Western woman (she was born Irish), but because Margaret Hassan’s sole purpose as...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—All Americans celebrate the recent Iraqi election—the images of the long lines at polling sites were truly thrilling—and we hope these newcomers to democracy can solidify their historic reality. But there is another set of images and another...
