The Passing of the Present and the Decline of America - CounterPunch.org

The Passing of the Present and the Decline of America - CounterPunch.org: “I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel about the World War II bombing of the German city of Dresden appeared the year I graduated from West Point. While dimly aware that its publication More