Thomas Chatterton Williams

There is a growing and palpable bloodlust and desire to see ideological opponents quite literally eradicated that should give us all extreme pause. It’s been a long time since the most meaningful divide in American political and cultural life was between “left” and “right.” It’s not even so much about “sane” vs. “insane” anymore, as it so often was circa 2020. The fundamental split today is between the *decent* and the *indecent.* It is monstrous to desire, excuse, sanitize, whitewash avoidable killing even of one’s perceived foes.

With my friend and colleague of some 26 years now, , after speaking together at . Photos by the infectious .laichter on his exquisite, 100-year-old 4x5 camera.

Paris on a rainy day