Larry Platt
Philly-based Editor and Author at The Philadelphia Citizen
Philly-based Editor & Author | @thephilacitizen | Latest of five books: "Life is Magic" coming soon
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6 days ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Larry Platt
The news is coming at you fast and furious of late, so there’s a lot that naturally slips by. For example: On the national stage, you might have missed that the Trump administration is planning a “big military parade” in D.C. on the president’s 79th birthday, to also mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Army. That’s right: Tanks in the streets honoring Dear Leader.
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1 week ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Larry Platt
We’ve seen a lot more ghosts of Neville Chamberlain lately than, say, apparitions of Winston Churchill. These are stark moral times; appeasers on one side, warriors on the other. In the Academy, endowment-rich institutions like Columbia and Harvard universities have seemed to cower before MAGA-world targeting, as if you can deal-cut your way out of culture war.
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3 weeks ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Larry Platt
The campaign for District Attorney is off to a rollicking start, with incumbent Larry Krasner and challenger Pat Dugan, longtime municipal court judge, going at it in multiple forums already. It’s gotten snippy, but there have also been moments of high-mindedness. As someone who paid close attention to the races for DA in 2017 and 2021, this one feels more like what a campaign should be: An argument. An exercise in the art of public persuasion.
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1 month ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Larry Platt
I say this having helped four boldface names pen their top-selling remembrances: Few rise to the vexing challenge of memoir writing — resisting the urge to make you, the memoirist, your narrative’s central character. See the conundrum? It’s yours, but it’s not about you. It is, rather, about something bigger, an idea or set of ideas that subtly nod to a way for the reader to see something new in the familiar.
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1 month ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Larry Platt
It’s a little dusty, but there’s this book on my shelf that won a Pulitzer Prize way back in 1957. It’s called Profiles in Courage, written (ghostwritten?) by a dashing soon-to-be President. A democracy, JFK asserted, depends upon “faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor and ultimately recognize right.”Ah, them were the days.
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For those of us who agree with most of @DA_LarryKrasner's criminal justice reforms here’s the rub: He jeopardizes all of it, the whole agenda, by not exhibiting the ability to work with anyone else to make the system fairer and our streets safer. https://t.co/YOiLNZy1OB
RT @thephilacitizen: The DA’s Trump-like pugilism makes you wonder just who he can get along with in order to make Philly safer @platt_larr…
#Dems are going to need many more like her -- and won't get them taking away private insurance, and calling for open borders and reparations: https://t.co/yfws1lpufP