"Disappearing Acts" is about how inconvenient facts, those that don’t fit into a culturally/politically/historically/racially favored story line or theme, are often disappeared so as to make an implausible theme plausible, and how the phenomena of fact disappearing permeates and despoils our entire culture! Disappearing Acts begins with a “pre-apology” for the book’s often angry tone, followed by a discussion of and a working definition for patriotism. The author argues that if one is a true pat… Continue