Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.

Use your art to fight.