Scorched Earth
by Marc Eliot Stein Monday, September 28, 2020 09:37 pm
There's a smell of scorched earth in the air lately, here in America. It's smoke from Pacific coast wildfires, and it's something more: the warning scent of an authoritarian future we must avoid, even as our society chokes on climate change, racism, social injustice, predatory capitalism and military escalation. Scorched earth is what I see when I close my eyes and think about the direction the USA is going in right now.
