Lawrence Weschler

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Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award...

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Terrorizing a Family of Human Rights Champions

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Sep 11, 2014 Bahrain, a key U.S. ally in the Mideast, is building a symbolic wall against freedom. Part of that odious effort is the longtime persecution of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and two of his daughters. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Sarajevo 1914 / Gaza 2014: The Short Twentieth Century Lingers On

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Aug 4, 2014 Strange the way things line up, the through-lines that suddenly reveal themselves amidst the twists and turns of historical progression. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Gaza as Sarajevo

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Jul 24, 2014 The image of Israeli tank columns safely ranged on the periphery of Gaza methodically lobbing in round after round of supposedly precision-guided munitions (precision, that is, give or take the odd 25 person civilian family huddled together for the breaking of their Ramadan fast), sent me whistling back to my own time in Sarajevo, after the lifting of the siege there in the wake of the Dayton Accords in late 1995. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Israel Has Been Bitten by a Bat

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Jul 19, 2014 The news out of Israel and Palestine: relentless, remorseless, repetitively compulsive, rabid. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Of Baby Eagles and Human Prospects

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Jun 26, 2014 Surely we don’t get to gaze upon the fate of our own species through the lens of the Prime Directive. On the contrary, surely it is our duty to intervene and to do so on an urgent basis. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Time to Start Preoccupying Wall Street

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Dec 10, 2011 What would it be like if activists were to spend the next several months developing, articulating and organizing toward a major national mortgage and student loan strike? Such a loan strike would be slated to begin on some specific preannounced date in the intermediate future. Why not, say, on Oct. 1, 2012, right in the middle of the next presidential campaign?Tyrannies all over the world exist in the ironclad certainty that people are nothing more than meat on sticks. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )