de·moc·ra·cy /dəˈmäkrəsē/ noun a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. control of an organization or group by the majority of its members. It’s tempting for Western philosophy to categorize democracy as originating in Greece and Rome in 5BCE. But it may […]
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The Mission of Sisyphus
Sisyphus began in 2010. Can anyone believe that is over a decade ago? Over that span of time, the magazine went from producing a single issue every couple of years to a quarterly online magazine with dozens of contributors. The magazine has morphed and changed and evolved just the way that people and families and […]
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generation gen·er·a·tion | \ ˌje-nə-ˈrā-shən \ 1: a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor 2: a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously 3: a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type Lost, Interbellum, Greatest, Silent, Boomer, Gen X, Xennials, Millennials, […]
Call for Submissions: Issue 10.1 Democracy
de·moc·ra·cy /dəˈmäkrəsē/ noun a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. control of an organization or group by the majority of its members. It’s tempting for Western philosophy to categorize democracy as originating in Greece and Rome in 5BCE. But […]
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hope /hōp/ noun a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. The Washington Post asked the nation for a word that represented 2021: “Relentless and disappointing. Messy and clarifying. Fragile and unexpected. Full of growth, grief, change and survival. Enlightening and tumultuous. Transformational and lonely. Exhausting, exhausting, exhausting.” 2022 has so […]
Hope is not a Strategy
It seems difficult in these times of pandemic, partisan divide, the rise of autocracies, income inequality, and racial divisiveness to even remember what hope used to mean. In America, we struggle even to hold accountable those who attempt to dismantle our democracy, those who devolve the U.S. into anocracy through manufactured disinformation, instill institutional distrust, […]
Call for Submissions: Issue 9.2 Generations
generation gen·er·a·tion | \ ˌje-nə-ˈrā-shən \ 1: a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor 2: a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously 3: a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type Lost, Interbellum, Greatest, Silent, Boomer, Gen X, Xennials, Millennials, […]
Call for Submissions: Issue 6.1 Wakefulness
wakeful [weyk-fuhl] adjective watchful; alert; vigilant Get woke, America. On November 6 , 2018, it seemed–for a bright, shining moment–that a majority of America was working together and ushering in a new age of cooperation and compassion and real desire to see justice return to American soil. What a long, long time ago that was: before the renewed battle […]