The fourth installment of the apparently ongoing series of interviews with my father, collectively entitled "American Cynic." In this episode, my father and I review an array of unpleasant encounters: with law enforcement officers; on the basketball court; and with mysterious, vehicle-napping Manhattan "Marshals." Also, the 'best' films of all time.

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The final installment of the American Cynic series surveys life in New York City in the first half of the 20th century: Mirrors shattered by errant baseball bats, squandered investment opportunities, and a street race for the ages. Also, why nobody is funny.

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About year ago, I interviewed my father about his past, specifically his experience as a soldier in the Vietnam War. This time, I ask him to survey his 76 years as a lay critic of American foreign and domestic policy.

The conversation ranges wide as my father ruminates on presidential doings and misdoings over the course of a half century, and culminates almost inevitably in an argument about a crucial question: how tall is Henry Kissinger? Though consensus isn't reached on that key point, we can agree that old HK is probably one of the worst human beings ever.

It's part 2 of American Cynic - a bit of a wild ride.

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Journalist Michael Deibert has called several countries --if not continents-- home, and has written several books, including In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico, and most recently Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History, which came out earlier this year.

He’s had articles published in The Guardian, Truthdig, The Huffington Post and Slate among others. He currently resides in Lancaster, but as his résumé clearly shows, staying put isn’t exactly his game. We sat together on a relatively cool summer morning in the cemetery adjacent to St. James’ Church in the heart of Lancaster City, where he was born and the city he calls home - for now.

"One Rural County's Battle to Stop a Pipeline" (In These Times, 8.15.17)

"Haiti: In the Kingdom of Impunity" (Huffington Post, 6.2.14)

Haiti Will Not Perish

In the Shadow of Saint Death

Original music by Ari Gold

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In just a few short weeks the Stone Independent School will embark on our inaugural academic year. Two of the classes are my own creations: United States History through the lens of the economics of slavery; and the history of Israel/Palestine.

I’m sharing my process for building these classes here as a means of documenting their development and ultimately charting their progress. Will I wind up doing what I set out to do? Is what I’m setting out to do well-conceived or utterly misguided? Is it too narrowly drawn? Does it skew matters without the proper proportion of self-awareness and humility? These are a few of the pitfalls I’m afraid of.

A few links of note:

Deborah Miranda, Bad Indian

Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told

David Stannard, American Holocaust

Pascal Robert on Dead Pundits Society

Steve Sheinkin, History Writer (Hear a great interview with him on Erica Heilman's terrific podcast Rumble Strip)

Norman Finkelstein on the 1967 War here; and also here.

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity 

Moshe Dayan on the 1967 war

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This story is about pain, both mental and physical, and it’s about how these two kinds of pain are very much connected, despite our culture’s insistence that they’re not. It’s also about our unwillingness to admit that we’ve made mistakes, big mistakes, even though an admission would certainly lead to and end to suffering and the beginning of healing for large numbers of people.

This is Roey Shmool's story. He is a filmmaker and an aspiring anxiety coach; two things which might seem disparate but, as his story unfurls, will have more and more in common. He lives in Minneapolis, and has for several years been at work on a documentary film about infant surgery and its aftermath. Some of his story includes discussion of our physiology, and how sometimes it breaks down and in his case, what’s been done to try and fix it.

www.iknownowanxietycoach.com

Cover art by Roey Shmool

Music by Nick Peterson

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Aryeh Bernstein is a Chicagoan, an Israeli citizen, a teacher, and a seeker of social justice. He wears his Judaism on his sleeve, as well as beneath his shirt. Each day he dons a “talit katan” with its fringes that hang from a traditional garment he wears beneath his outer clothing. It’s one of several of his daily reminders to engage in self-reflection, to recall his heritage, and to be aware that there’s something out there that’s bigger than him.

Music: “Shine” by The Maccabeats.

Breaking the Silence: Israeli soldiers discuss the occupied territories.

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