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Philip Guston, Untitled, 1971, Ink on paper, 26.7 x 35.2 cm = 10 1/2 x 13 7/8 in, Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth [GUSTO77446]

Guston Presidents Cartoons Questions?

November 4, 2016 by William Eaton

In a number of Philip Guston’s more than 100 cartoon-style drawings of Richard Nixon, which are currently on view at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York City, the former President’s nose and jowls are transformed into a cock and balls (or scrotum).[1] We recognize the long-standing association of the nose and the penis, and can understand that Guston, in his sixties, was making his way back from Abstract Expressionism toward the cartooning of his adolescence. He was exaggerating the […]

Categories: ZiLL • Tags: anti-Semitism, cartoons, Cyrano de Bergerac, drawing, Jews, John F. Kennedy, Ku Klux Klan, McCarthyism, noses, Philip Guston, Philip Roth, Presidential campaigns, Richard Nixon, United Nations

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In Kant’s Wood

June 7, 2015 by William Eaton

On freedom, competition, and the flowering of our species By William Eaton Note: This is the first in a planned series of articles and essays related to conflict—political, economic, social, artistic, internal, . . .   Among the early spring-flowering trees the dogwood, Cornus florida, is unrivaled in beauty. It usually grows 15 to 25 feet in height and is generally wider than tall. With fall comes a brilliant show of scarlet to reddish purple foliage and bright red fruit […]

Categories: Essay • Tags: competition, dogwood, Ecclesiastes, freedom, Kant, Pierre Loti, Rousseau, United Nations

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Migration & the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

September 15, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

In the midst of the heated debate on U.S. immigration policy, Erika Eichelberger’s article for Mother Jones stands out for a new critique. Eichelberger observes that migrant children might be better treated if the United States would have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of the treaty’s largest provisions (Article 3) urges countries to act in the best interests of the child. Thus, ratifying would pressure the White House and Congress to prioritize reuniting kids with their family members in the […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: child immigrants, childhood, children, United Nations

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A (Short) Week of Reading: 11-15 September 2012

September 11, 2012 by William Eaton

From Paul Kelly, Zeteo Chief Copy Editor 11 September 2012 I read in today’s Guardian about proposed UK legislation regarding evidence given in civil trials of those claiming damages against the government for rendition and the abuse suffered in those places of confinement, including but not limited to Guantanamo Bay. The new legislation would allow members of the intelligence services to give evidence in secret, to protect themselves and their political superiors, all in the name of protecting state secrets. […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Holocaust, human rights, James Joyce, Northern Ireland, poetry, torture, Ulysses, United Kingdom, United Nations

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The Congo and Hammarskjöld

June 10, 2012 by William Eaton

The Price of Uranium: the Congo and Hammarsköld By Paul Kelly There is a common theme in Congolese history: the same exploitative impulse which defined King Léopold’s Congo, carried on in spite of independence, and has continued unbroken to this day. The biggest losers throughout have been the Congolese people; the biggest winners, the multinational mining companies. A review of Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa, by Susan Williams (Columbia University Press, 2012) […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Congo, Hammarskjold, neo-colonialism, United Nations

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