Skip to content

Culture

Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 26, 2020

SALTER: After virtual national party conventions end, issues will ultimately determine election

By: Sid Salter With the Republican National Convention wrapping up this week and the Democratic National Convention just behind us, the stretch run has essentially begun in the 2020 presidential campaign. There are just 10 weeks left in this election. As one who covered national party conventions as a reporter, I found the pandemic-driven introduction…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 26, 2020

LIPSON: “Playing with Fire: It’s Time to Condemn the Riots and Restore Public Safety”

Some conflicts begin with clear aims but morph into endless battles, the original motives forgotten. The timeless metaphor for self-sustaining battles is Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the inheritance case at the heart of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on,’ he wrote. ‘This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so…