Note from the Publisher: This piece belongs to the Merion West Legacy series, referring to articles and poems published between 2016 up to Spring 2025.

If the Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back

If the Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back

“The implication is that culture and politics can be thought of as the bob of a pendulum swinging back and forth mechanically between the political left and the right, and that, at the moment, we are simply at the leftward amplitude of such a process.”

Timeless reading in a fleeting world.

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