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The 2024 Presidential Election has put me in a moral quandary. Why vote?
The 2024 Presidential Election has put me in a moral quandary. Why vote?
On the one hand, the choice is an aged narcissist and misogynist, indicted 4 times, including for racketeering, who is hellbent on ruining…
Héctor Vila
Aug 15, 2023
Agency: It’s Place & Value
Agency: It’s Place & Value
In 2009 Raj Patel wrote words that have reappeared to me as if out of a thick fog: “The future will be shaped by our will to imagine a…
Héctor Vila
May 3, 2023
An Uncanny Confluence: The Talibanization of America — is it possible?
An Uncanny Confluence: The Talibanization of America — is it possible?
Could The Talibanization of America actually be possible? That is, a total shut down and repression of American life? What are the signs?
Héctor Vila
Feb 25, 2023
The Absurdity & Incongruity of War — Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan & Ukraine
The Absurdity & Incongruity of War — Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan & Ukraine
“In my dreams, the war is silent,” writes Bushra Al-Maqtari in What Have You Left Behind? “No missiles, nor air raids, no murder, no…
Héctor Vila
Feb 17, 2023
The World on Fire: A Failure to Establish Ties
The World on Fire: A Failure to Establish Ties
A close reading of the US Embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, document, which was handed to a young woman, a high school student from…
Héctor Vila
Feb 6, 2023
The U.S. State Department Aids The Taliban in Erasing All Hope for Afghanistan — Especially Women
The U.S. State Department Aids The Taliban in Erasing All Hope for Afghanistan — Especially Women
In 2005, Middlebury College admitted our first Afghan student, a candidate from the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. The following year…
Héctor Vila
Jan 16, 2023
Finding Waldo
Finding Waldo
For 12 weeks, September to December, 2022, a total of 30 hrs, I taught in-person every Monday and Wednesday, 8:40 am to 9:55 am, in…
Héctor Vila
May 16, 2022
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