The Plot Against America

There are the "new historicism" which calls for revisionism, particularly with regard to the notion of an inviolate past and absolute truth.  Thomas Kuhn famously wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions which coined the notion "paradigm shift." Multiculturalism, the bane of those who attack woke culture, is a product of widening the epistemic net.  A quote like Saul Bellow's who is "the Shakespeare of the Zulus" is the equivalent is a form of cultural rape. All this being said, it's astonishing how fast the Visigoths toppled the current Rome. Down with the emoluments clause! Trump hosts a bit coin dinner. His sons pitch hotel projects in the wake of Mideast meetings. All of a sudden there is literally no separation between the executive and the judiciary. Trump issues executive orders like flapjacks. Kristi Noem apparently thought habeas corpus was created by the president--a creative contravention of one of the most central principles of jurisprudence.Trump's brand of transactional politics gives isolationism a fresh and more lethal spin. Philip K Dick's The Man in a High Castle imagined an alternate universe with the Axis powers in charge. What once seemed like sci fi has the stark ring reality.  You wake up from the nightmare only to find yourself in an alternate universe in which the past nightmare is the take-off point for your dreams.

read "The Waste Land" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn