Just in:
Archipelago is live again. You can open Volume 9, Winter 2006, at
http://www.archipelago.org, and welcome. We’ve had a long, and, I think, fruitful hiatus. Now we offer you …
Go read Katherine McNamara’s very powerful
my Endnotes are “At Our Own Risk,” in which I tell you about how we spent our hiatus and what we learned: “In some unimaginable future it may become evident that I have been wrong, these last five years, in my judgment of Bush and his government, and, equally, of how to publish this journal; but in the present danger it seems to me a publisher’s responsibility to have taken that risk. It was our early sense that the narrative had changed: that this nation rapidly lost both power and influence in the world, that our moral standing had been brought shockingly low, that the very basis of our governance was being altered without our consent. This was not a matter of mere personality; the changes in our governance since the Reagan-Thatcher years are structural. I was educated in the history of Europe and am haunted by the specter of the ‘good German’ who went along with law and authority while his murderous government made (preventive) war on the world and its own citizens. I do not make this analogy lightly, but in sadness. I think this nation will be called to account for Bush’s war and the havoc his government has let loose in the world.”