Michael B McDonald
mctrane.bsky.social
Michael B McDonald
@mctrane.bsky.social
English professor, devotee of mbira and many other instruments. Newly obsessed with the hurdy gurdy.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com Dear Lawrence,

I am awed by the pathos that informs your arguments with moral force and clarity. I’d like to think that if I were still teaching I’d have the courage to show your segment on the banality of cruelty. So courageous and unassailable.
July 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social I was glad to see Omar El Akkad on your show today. But was irked by your repeated warnings about his book’s content. It’s true that the book is extremely upsetting, in places, but is it more upsetting than the fact that American-made weapons are destroying Gaza?
May 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is not Weimar Germany. We are not reeling from losing hundreds of thousands in a war that destroyed the economy and left the currency worthless, nor have we inherited centuries of violent anti-semitism. We still can effect positive change here. Those not busy being born are busy dying!
November 21, 2024 at 1:54 AM