by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—In the months since the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was commemorated, a particular survivor of that death camp—a Polish woman named Saba—has occupied my thoughts. These memories come with marching orders. But first, Saba in...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—”Things fall apart,” poet William Butler Yeats famously wrote, “the centre cannot hold.” Written just after World War I, Yeats’s lines suggest themselves now—with the fourth anniversary of 9/11—when the...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—Normalcy: It’s a wallflower during the ball, but it almost always gets the last waltz. Recent proof of this universal truth is reflected in the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to British playwright Harold Pinter. The master of...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
GIG HARBOR, WASH.—It’s disturbing to watch bad ideas grow legs. In the deadly firestorm ignited by the Danish cartoons caricaturing Islam, one bad idea—the “clash of civilizations”—seems to have found its feet. The agenda shaping up for this...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Who will raise the radioactive issue—torture—and restore America’s soul? To gauge by the rising din of issue-talk, the 2006-08 electoral Games have begun. Candidates running for Congressional seats have already taken a few laps; the presidential candidates...
