CUNY Academic Commons | John Brenkman | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/johnbrenkman/activity/ Activity feed for John Brenkman. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 bd85cc17e8db8db95c6fee872942ce66 John Brenkman's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/965826/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:46:08 -0500 0e5a6d6cce8adc19d2ff6c07f53bd0b0 John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.com/?p=1647 Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:37:42 -0400 we are sevenBiden’s most irresponsible political act was dissolving, and absolving, our country’s responsibility for the millions of girls and women abandoned to […]

]]> 41db10298585cc62a4d989f585b6db2e John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.com/?p=1571 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:22:54 -0500 “But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks n […]

]]> c430e6a1e127995cfcbff6beadf059b0 John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1348 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:03:06 -0400 Something rang false back when President Biden announced that the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would occur on September 11, 2021. Twenty years to the day since al-Qaeda hijacked UAL 175 and […]

]]> 7fa8da36e7fea95f87464e90f539d055 John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1262 Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:16:33 -0500 The poetics of hockey has suffered a terrible blow. Doc Emrick retired at the end of last season after forty-seven years as the most expressive and eloquent of sports announcers. He called an NHL broadcast on TV […]

]]> 49663fee6febc478eaeb527ed6a232f1 John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1255 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:34:48 -0500 A NYT headline online today announced “Pence Reached His Limit with Trump. It Wasn’t Pretty.” Reached his limit is an interesting phrase. Pence, we will no doubt be led to believe, was in there resisting all along […]

]]> f05a2b42b9d5e43931035c8a6f12f51f John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1243 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:36:35 -0500 The outcry over the recent WSJ op-ed on Jill Biden’s use of the honorific “Dr.” is laughably out of all proportion to the offense. The author took the no doubt painful occasion of having to recognize that Joe B […]

]]> 1405dacf5b1fe21f286e2600379f213c John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1235 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:27:24 -0500 Are we in our Weimar moment? is not an unreasonable question. But the apparent parallels can disguise the deeper difference. Unlike the Weimar Republic, whose unraveling opened the way to Hitler’s rise to pow […]

]]> 47e7c6a738a05df6a534b350e4a48dbd John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1209 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:39:13 -0400 The sad absurdity of the Sanders left: Holding what the campaign billed “a racial and economic justice town hall” in Flint, Michigan, to rejuvenate his candidacy among African-Americans, Sanders set aside the spe […]

]]> ebe1ea9d4f628114c2ccd53fdd4334c3 John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=302 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 05:00:24 -0500 Heidegger’s fourfold ignores the sea as part of the earth, looking exclusively at the agrarian world and preindustrial farming to flesh out his symbolizations of earth. But seafaring, too, has preindustrial o […]

]]> c5838f78c10a4788f0402f1029e9d05b John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=913 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:49:40 -0400 I have had three long-term relationships with women I deeply loved. They all ended in divorce, two de jure and one de facto. One involved children and two the lack of children. Infidelity played a role each time, […]

]]> 1a19cec43e52687dcc5875f0b79a8862 John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=916 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:57:06 -0400 Pope Francis visited Philadelphia, the District of Columbia, and New York City in 2015, September 22-27. Speaking to the General Assembly during the UN’s annual gathering of heads of state, he sounded three t […]

]]> 217cd28772c99cc24faf261a419db8ed John Brenkman wrote a new post on the site John Brenkman https://johnbrenkman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=918 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:58:24 -0400 How do I know there is no afterlife? Because the inmates of paradise do not read. The promise of afterlife is the promise of transcending the knowledge of good and evil and of death that Adam and Eve brought into […]

]]> b34e5b04a6bcefb690bda7bebc27e094 John Brenkman created the site John Brenkman https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/471814/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:44:01 -0400 7e8fda5910b39554486c8bb8791f1165 John Brenkman became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/58441/ Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:29:43 -0500