Phil Klay @PhilKlay
Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA. philklay.com Joined September 2011-
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We are disturbed by reports of the arrest of author Ayelet Waldman by Israeli police when she and others were trying to enter Gaza to deliver food aid. Humanitarian efforts to assist the people of Gaza should not be subject to punishment.
We are disturbed by reports of the arrest of author Ayelet Waldman by Israeli police when she and others were trying to enter Gaza to deliver food aid. Humanitarian efforts to assist the people of Gaza should not be subject to punishment.
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Some thoughts about the supplemental bill. This is good news, but it will primarily help Ukraine defend in 2024 and into 2025. Russia will still likely make further gains this year, and it doesn't fix all of Ukraine's issues. It should be seen as one part of a long-term strategy.
I should note that I appreciate that US writers are speaking up about Gaza, a war our country is supporting. However, I fail to see how damaging an institution like @PENamerica helps in this crisis, or in any of the many other areas where PEN does necessary work.
I should note that I appreciate that US writers are speaking up about Gaza, a war our country is supporting. However, I fail to see how damaging an institution like @PENamerica helps in this crisis, or in any of the many other areas where PEN does necessary work.
I’m proud to be a member of @PENamerica and I support them in staying true to their principles as a free speech organization in the face of intense pressure. If you feel the same, you should let them know, even if only in a private message.
“The fundamental misperception at the center of this conflict is that PEN America sees itself as a free-speech organization, while the protesters see it as a channel to express their political views.”
“This is a way of resurrecting the past in order to bury it properly.” @PhilipMetres
“This is a way of resurrecting the past in order to bury it properly.” @PhilipMetres
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“Oxfam, an aid group, has calculated that hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza, which has been closed for months to all but a small dribble of aid, are trying to survive on an average of 245 calories a day.”
“Oxfam, an aid group, has calculated that hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza, which has been closed for months to all but a small dribble of aid, are trying to survive on an average of 245 calories a day.”
“Despite American pleas for restraint, Palestinians, Israelis and military experts expect that Israel will go into Rafah. The real question is what will happen after that” nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/…
I wish less of the folks driving activism in the literary community weren’t also apologists for mass rape and murder
I wish less of the folks driving activism in the literary community weren’t also apologists for mass rape and murder https://t.co/3bI5pyk1Gk
“This was a man with whom I have very little in common. I’m not Italian, I’m not a priest. But like the Good Pope, I have cancer, and I wanted to spend time with him.” Beautiful essay from @gregorykhillis on traveling to Rome after a cancer diagnosis americamagazine.org/faith/2024/04/…
Hell yes to this.
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@PhilKlay @PENamerica Yes indeed. PEN is an organization that helps and protects writers who hold different views. To complain because it doesn't support your politics misunderstands the purpose and value of the organization.
One of the best pieces of persuasive journalism I've ever read + learned from is Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations." (Somehow now ten years old.) A lot of absolutist yet half-baked political takes from today could learn from it, I think. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Some thoughts about the supplemental bill. This is good news, but it will primarily help Ukraine defend in 2024 and into 2025. Russia will still likely make further gains this year, and it doesn't fix all of Ukraine's issues. It should be seen as one part of a long-term strategy.
"Moran says she lost 12% of her bodyweight, and her hair, during 54 days in Gaza, and that her body was covered with scars. It is hard for her to imagine what it's like for the hostages still held there, five months on." bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…
@PhilKlay @PENamerica I’m proud to be a member of @PENamerica, and was very much looking forward to the festival—and to taking notes there with my all-time favorite writing implement.
@PhilKlay @PENamerica Maybe we sometimes need both external and internal pressure to move the needle. One size need not fit all. 3/end
@PhilKlay @PENamerica When I put my sons in Boy Scouts, BSA still discriminated against gay youths & leaders. We thought about leaving, but decided to stay put to agitate internally for change & be positioned to welcome & support gay Scouts & leaders when the policy changed (as it did). 2/
@PhilKlay @PENamerica I think in cases like this everyone has to weigh what matters more to them & what they think will do the most good: making a statement of support for something through boycott & public statement, or sticking around to apply pressure for an important change from within. 1/
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I’m proud to be a member of @PENamerica and I support them in staying true to their principles as a free speech organization in the face of intense pressure. If you feel the same, you should let them know, even if only in a private message.
“For the protesting writers, this lofty mission represents an unforgivable moral abdication…. But if they have their way and PEN America doesn’t survive, where will these authors turn when they need defending?” Read @galbeckerman on PEN America: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
I'm struggling to understand why activists, whether or not I agree with their position, demand that institutions with little to no agency to effect policy hew to a political position simply to signal the virtue of the "correct" speech. What purpose does it serve?
BREAKING: PEN America has canceled its World Voices festival. The organization has been brought to its knees by the demand that it say the word "genocide." But who does this really hurt in the end? theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Seems still radical to this day...
The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”. If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.
I think that St Jerome is second only to St Augustine in terms of long term influence over Western Theology. And this because translation decisions in the Vulgate set the trajectory for the vocabulary. The mind frames the words, but the words also frame the mind.
Delighted to announce @JonOgdenWork as a new member of the @wayfarewriting editorial team. You can read his essay about his search for an expansive spirituality below. wayfaremagazine.org/p/my-search-fo…
On Frank Bidart’s very great poem “Overheard Through the Walls of the Invisible City,” which has haunted me since I first read it 25 years ago. Also: Giuseppe Caputo’s brilliant debut novel, & an upcoming event with Catherine Barnett & Dianne Wiest. Link to full essay in profile.
It's wrong to respond to evident political disagreements with unflattering psychologizing and speculation about motive. Better to stick to the substance and let difference of opinion flourish in the light of day.
A generation that has grown up in peace and prosperity jonesing for the rush of having their own version of the 1960s, and looking desperately to shoehorn every cause into a replay of what they think their boomer grandparents were doing
from THE VEIL (Knopf, 1987) by Denis Johnson
I have one more lecture to write on Flannery O'Connor for Audible. WHAT FLANNERY O'CONNOR QUESTIONS CAN I ANSWER?
Seemed pertinent, just now. Also, you could say I wrote a book about that photo.
An unavoidable Throwback. In Italy, April 25 celebrates the Resistance, their 1945 victory over Hitler & Mussolini. Also, a couple of days earlier was the birthday of my father Enzo. Here he is in ‘45, in Naples, a liaison for the Allied OSS following his teenage partisan days.
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