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It was almost 11:30 a.m., July 22, 2004, and we were awaiting the arrival of the ten members of the National Commission on the Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally known as the 9/11 Commission). Most of the journalists...

I would argue that we are still under the mythos of populism, whether it be the relatively mild form promulgated by an aging William Jennings Bryan, who crossed verbal swords in the mid-1920s with Clarence Darrow over teaching Darwin in...

 A man I know hews space

from trees. Hauls himself up there, days,

Last century we took a lot of shots
Of what we did, framing things for Look and Life
So we could see us and our lot

Where there were only dirt and needles,
I laid a floor of hardwood and shellac.
I plaited walls into the forest.