In “The Bitterroot Path,” one watches her move from lyric’s uncontaminated source of wonder in its Romantic roots to ...

The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a ...

Bruises bloom roses; the blind bird has fled. Francoise Nieto-Fong was born in New York City to a Colombian father and a ...

“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and ...

John Repp is a poet, fiction writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, Pennsylvania. Seven Kitchens ...

Everyone lives in some kind of common sense reality. We live in a world of discrimination, order, hierarchies, competence etc. Language itself would be impossible without a grounding in some common ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

Jonathan Church is a contributing editor at Merion West. He is a government economist with a background in energy economics and inflation measurement. In addition to authoring several essays, he has ...

Ronald Zack is a poet and an attorney (in that order) living and working in Tucson, Arizona. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Main Street Rag, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Poetry ...

“Recently, however, James Lindsay has sparked a contentious debate on this topic by disparaging postliberals as ‘woke right.’ We will examine [Alasdair] MacIntyre in the context of this vibrant debate ...