This post is Part II in a two-part guest series from Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor for the Algemeiner.

Who can speak about the future when our present is so bleak? Who, through all the pain and the trauma of today, can think about tomorrow? And yet tomorrow not today was to be my topic tonight.

This post is Part I in a two-part guest series from Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College and Campus Bureau Editor for the Algemeiner. Stay tuned for Part II 1. Yes or No It’s a simple yes or no question. Much follows from how one answers the question, but we’ll start with just…

Oxford Languages defines synecdoche as “a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in ‘Cleveland won by six runs’ (meaning Cleveland’s baseball team)”.

I used to say that when I was born, a decade after the end of World War II, the ovens of Auschwitz were still warm. Since then, I believed, they had cooled to the point of extinction. I was wrong. The crematoria are still very warm and rapidly getting hotter. Hostage posters placed on the tracks…

Because everything about this war defies reason, it’s lately had me thinking about Sophie’s Choice. Yes, William Styron’s 1979 novel…