Garret Keizer

Sep 24, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | John Crowley |Daniel Mason |D. Graham Burnett |Garret Keizer

Devil or angel, I can’t make up my mind Which one you are I’d like to wake up and find —Blanche Carter, “Devil or Angel,” 19551. The Wool-Sweater ProblemIn the spring of 1968, Cyrena Pondrom, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin, held a series of conversations with the novelist and story writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. The questions were wide-ranging, and so were the answers.

Feb 21, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Garret Keizer

We would also have a better chance of locking arms against a common enemy. It seems that at this point in history we ought to be able to come up with at least a few admissible truths regarding Israel and Palestine. Here are a few that seem shout-worthy to me:Globe Opinion's weekly take on politics, delivered every Wednesday. 1. That the Holocaust happened and was wrong. 2.

Jan 23, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Garret Keizer

From its start the Republican presidential primary race has seemed utterly pointless, like a table full of office workmates rehashing where to eat lunch, even as they’re wolfing down what they already decided to eat. With Donald Trump almost certain to win the nomination — in spite of, or because of, spewing Nazi-style vitriol about poisoned national bloodlines and left-wing vermin — and with all of his final-round competitors in lockstep with the MAGA agenda, what is there to say?

Jan 10, 2024 | vqronline.org | Paul Reyes |Andrew Zubiri |Garret Keizer |Laura Kolbe

Winter 2023 In this issue, reporter Harriet Brown and photographer Lynn Johnson offer a deep dive into the impact of medicinal cannabis on children who suffer from severe illness. Faced with little to no options, in an often-hostile legal landscape, parents have turned to cannabis oil as a way to accelerate their children’s healing or offset the potent side effects of intense pharmacological regimens—often at great legal risk.

Jan 10, 2024 | vqronline.org | Garret Keizer

My sense of gratitude seems to have grown with time. I feel grateful about as often as I need to pee, which these days is a matter of minutes more than hours. Age probably has as much to do with the one as the other. At seventy I’m able to see most of the ways that what I used to take for granted could have been otherwise. I’ve watched the crapshoot long enough to know all the various combinations on the dice.