This Armistice Day, Kurt Vonnegut – humanist, socialist, chronicler of the “terrible wastefulness of war” – would have turned 101; he deemed “sacred” the date when millions laid down their arms in a singular, merciful moment of grace. This Armistice Day, Gaza saw no mercy or grace – just hospitals gone dark, nurses shot, patients trapped, babies “dying by the minute.” The devastation evokes Vonnegut’s mournful fury at another awful, Read More
2023-11-20