You have to go behind the billboards to understand what’s happening in America. So said the novelist Nelson Algren, who was as sharp a social critic as H.L. Mencken ever was. Seems to me that the British author A. Robert Lee would agree with Algren. But Lee has taken it upon himself to cite the billboards themselves as diagnostic proof.
Archives for April 2026
Our Biggest Problem
His mouth is too big, and his conscience . . . well . . . he doesn’t have one.
How to Make Resistance a Daily Part of Our Lives
‘Don’t let anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.’
— Toni Morrison
‘Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.’
— Rebecca Solnit
Mad Dog at the FBI Sued in the Noonday Sun
Fired FBI agents are suing the bureau and Kash Patel for dismissing them because they took part in an investigation of el presidente Trumpscheisse’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.