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Clevudine, a pyrimidine nucleoside analogue, has potent antiviral effects in patients with chronic viral hepatitis B (CHB). We report the efficacy of initial treatment with clevudine in naïve patients with CHB living in Daejeon and Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
One hundred five adults with CHB were administered 30 mg of clevudine per day for an average of 51 weeks. We evaluated viral markers and liver biochemistry retrospectively every 3 months.
Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA before the treatment were 184 ± 188 IU/L, 150 ± 138 IU/L, and 7.1 ± 1.2 log copies/mL, respectively. Undetectable rates (< 60 IU/mL) of DNA were 36.2%, 68.9%, 83.6%, 76.2%, and 75.8% at 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 weeks, respectively. Seroconversion rates were 9.1%, 13.6%, 24.6%, 26.5%, and 26.1% and ALT normalization rates were 64.5%, 78.1%, 87.9%, 90.0% at 12, 24, 36, and 48 weeks, respectively. Six patients (5.7%) had a viral breakthrough.
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, which leads to chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, may be responsible for life-threatening liver disease in some individuals, with 350 million carriers worldwide [1]. Substantial advances in oral nucleoside/nucleotide analogs have been made for treating chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in past decades. Nucleoside or nucleotide analogues competitively inhibit replication of HBV DNA through DNA polymerase. Lamivudine (LAM) is a first-generation oral nucleoside analogue for treating CHB. Previous studies in naïve patients found a cumulative LAM resistance incidence of 70 to 80% after 4 to 5 years of therapy [2,3]. Entecavir shows very low resistance and a potent antiviral effect in naïve patients with CHB. Although there is no evidence of carcinogenesis in human studies, this drug has produced some tumors such as adenoma of the lung, neurogenic tumors, and hepatocellular carcinoma in mice [4]. Clevudine is a nucleoside analogue of the unnatural L-configuration, which has potent antiviral activity against HBV [1,5]. Studies about the efficacy of initial treatment with clevudine in naïve chronic hepatitis B patients have been reported [1,6-11] and indicate that clevudine is very useful for treating CHB in the short term. However, these studies had short-term follow-ups of 12 or 24 weeks [1,6-11]. More long-term follow-up period studies are needed for evaluating the efficacy of clevudine treatment in patients with CHB. We prescribed clevudine to 105 naïve patients with CHB living in Daejeon and Chungcheong Province in South Korea for an average of 51 weeks.
Study design
This was a retrospective study and was conducted at six medical centers in Daejeon and Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Eligible patients were diagnosed with CHB with or without hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg), HBV DNA levels above 1.0 × 105 copies/mL, > 2.0 × 104 IU/mL or > 0.4 pg/mL, and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels > 80 IU/L. All of the patients were prescribed clevudine for more than 6 months. The exclusion criteria were malignancy, alcoholism (> 20 g/day), severe fatty liver on ultrasonography, and a medication history of nucleoside or nucleotide analogues or interferon. The serum HBV DNA level was measured using the DNA PCR hybridization method (Roche, Indianapolis, IN, USA). The lower limit of HBV DNA detection was 300 copies/mL. Viral response was defined as < 300 copies/mL of HBV DNA. We defined viral breakthrough as a ten times rebound of HBV DNA copies compared with previous copies during treatment. Enrolled patients were prescribed 30 mg clevudine daily. We checked liver biochemistry, HBeAg/Ab, and HBV DNA every 12 weeks.
Patient characteristics
A total of 105 patients including 15 (14.3%) patients with liver cirrhosis were enrolled at six medical centers from February 2007 to August 2008. Seventy-one patients were HBeAg positive, and 34 patients were negative. The mean age was 42.7 years, and the mean follow-up period was 51.1 weeks. Median ALT at baseline was 184 IU/L, and median baseline HBV DNA was 7.1 log10 copies/mL (Table 1).
Viral response
Viral response rates in all patients were 36.2%, 68.9%, 83.6%, 76.2%, and 75.8% at 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 weeks, respectively. Viral response rates in HBeAg-positive patients were 23.3%, 59.7%, 79.2%, 72.3%, and 65.4%, and those in HBeAg-negative patients were 67.7%, 87.1%, 92.0%, 84.2%, and 88.9% at the corresponding weeks. The rates in HBeAg-positive patients were significantly lower at 12 and 24 weeks compared with those in HBeAg-negative patients. No significant difference was observed after 24 wks (Table 2).
Serum ALT normalization rate
The serum ALT normalization rates in all patients were 78.1% and 90.0% at 24 and 48 weeks, respectively. The serum ALT normalization rates in HBeAg-positive versus HBeAg-negative patients were 63.4% vs. 80%, 74.6% vs. 85.3%, 87.3% vs. 89.3%, and 87.7% vs. 91.3% at 12, 24, 36, and 48 weeks, respectively (Table 3).
HBeAg loss and seroconversion rate
A total of 71e HBeAg-positive patients were enrolled. Among these patients, the HBeAg loss was 20.3%, 30.6%, and 43.3% at 24, 48, and 60 weeks, respectively, and the HBeAg seroconversion rates were 13.6%, 26.5%, and 26.1%, at 24, 48, and 60 weeks (Table 4).
Viral breakthrough
The cumulative incidence rate of viral breakthrough in the HBeAg-positive versus HBeAg-negative patients was 1.4% vs. 0%, 3.3% vs. 3.4%, and 6.7% vs. 4.1% at 24, 36, and 48 weeks, respectively (Fig. 1). Six patients underwent treatment for viral breakthrough. Five cases were identified at 48 weeks, and one case at week 60. Five of these six patients underwent a tyrosine-methionine-aspartate-aspartate mutation (YMDD) examination, and four patients were positive (Table 5).
Clevudine is a nucleoside analog with an unnatural L-configuration. The mechanism by which clevudine exerts its antiviral effects is believed to be by the intracellular formation of the monophosphate, diphosphate, and triphosphate forms. Clevudine enters cells through both facilitated nucleoside transport and nonfacilitated passive diffusion and a substrate of three intracellular kinases is responsible for its phosphorylation [12].
When 21 patients received 30 mg clevudine for 24 weeks and were followed up for another 24 weeks off therapy, the clevudine treatment was well tolerated and resulted in more potent antiviral activity and a higher ALT normalization rate than a 12-week treatment, with durable efficacy at week 24 of therapy [1]. However, the experimental period in this study was less than 1 year. In another larger-scale study, 243 patients with HBeAg-positive CHB were randomized (3 : 1) to receive 30 mg clevudine once daily (n = 182) or placebo (n = 61) for 24 weeks. Patients were followed for a further 24 weeks off therapy. In that study, the 24-week clevudine therapy was well tolerated and showed a potent and sustained antiviral effect without evidence of viral resistance during the treatment period [9]. Here, we administered clevudine to 105 patients with CHB for about 1 year. As in other studies, clevudine showed powerful antiviral effects in this study [13]. With a limit of detection of < 300 copies/mL, the viral response rate was 76.2% (HBeAg-positive patients, 72.3%; HBeAg-negative patients, 84.2%) at 48 weeks. This result was remarkable enough to be compared with entecavir and tenofovir, which have negative seroconversion rates of 67% and 76%, respectively, after a 1-year treatment, but a direct comparison is difficult because of differences in the study methods and patient characteristics [9,10].
Viral response was highest at 36 weeks and subsequently decreased because some patients experienced viral breakthrough, and the HBV DNA PCR test at 48 or 60 weeks was not performed in some patients who had a good viral response.
The serum ALT normalization rate of all patients was 78.1% (HBeAg-positive patients, 74.6%; HBeAg-negative patients, 85.3%) and 90.0% (HBeAg-positive patients, 87.7%; HBeAg-negative patients, 91.3%) at 24 and 48 weeks, respectively. This result also shows similar efficacy to other antiviral agents. Approximately 6% of all patients with CHB showed viral breakthrough at 48 weeks. The viral breakthrough incidence rates were 2.9% and 7.0% for HBeAg-negative and -positive patients respectively; however, the difference was not statistically significant.
The cumulative viral breakthrough rate until week 48 was 6.3% (HBeAg-positive group, 7.0% [4/57]; HBeAg-negative group, 4.5% [1/22]) (Fig. 1).
Clevudine had powerful antiviral effects and had relatively lower viral breakthrough incidence rate compared with lamivudine (16-32% after 12 months); it is expected to replace lamivudine therapy [14]. When we performed the YMDD mutation test on five of six patients with viral breakthrough, the YMDD mutation was found in four patients. This suggested that clevudine cross-reacted with lamivudine. In particular, although our enrolled number of patients was insufficient to reach a definitive conclusion, clevudine appears to have been more effective for the HBeAg-negative group. Noticeably, although this study was not controlled, the HBeAg seroconversion rate at 48 weeks was 26.5% (13/49), which was relatively high compared with that for lamivudine (16-18%) [15]. A limitation of this study was that the examinations were not performed at regular intervals at all times, as it was a retrospective study and had a relatively short-term follow-up period of 1 year compared with other studies on medications that have been more fully researched. Furthermore, although no patient stopped clevudine because of myositis or others side effects, we did not measure serum creatine phosphokinase regularly or assess side effects. Despite these limitations, the results suggest that clevudine has the potential to be an effective therapeutic medication for patients with CHB; however, longer-term research will be needed for further evaluation.
1. Lee KS, Byun KS, Chung YH, et al. Clevudine therapy for 24 weeks further reduced serum hepatitis B virus DNA levels and increased ALT normalization rates without emergence of viral breakthrough than 12 weeks of clevudine therapy. Intervirology 2007;50:296–302PMID : 17622789.
2. Locarnini S. Molecular virology and the development of resistant mutants: implications for therapy. Semin Liver Dis 2005;25(Suppl 1):9–19PMID : 16103977.
3. Lok AS, Lai CL, Leung N, et al. Long-term safety of lamivudine treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B. Gastroenterology 2003;125:1714–1722PMID : 14724824.
4. Matthews SJ. Entecavir for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. Clin Ther 2006;28:184–203PMID : 16678641.
5. Koh KH, Kang CJ, Kim DH, et al. Development of clevudine resistance after switching from lamivudine in a patient with chronic hepatitis B. Korean J Gastroenterol 2008;52:325–328PMID : 19077481.
6. Liu SH, Grove KL, Cheng YC. Unique metabolism of a novel antiviral L-nucleoside analog, 2'-fluoro-5-methyl-beta-L-arabinofuranosyluracil: a substrate for both thymidine kinase and deoxycytidine kinase. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1998;42:833–839PMID : 9559792.
7. Marcellin P, Mommeja-Marin H, Sacks SL, et al. A phase II dose-escalating trial of clevudine in patients with chronic hepatitis B. Hepatology 2004;40:140–148PMID : 15239097.
8. Lee HS, Chung YH, Lee K, et al. A 12-week clevudine therapy showed potent and durable antiviral activity in HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B. Hepatology 2006;43:982–988PMID : 16628625.
9. Yoo BC, Kim JH, Chung YH, et al. Twenty-four-week clevudine therapy showed potent and sustained antiviral activity in HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B. Hepatology 2007;45:1172–1178PMID : 17464992.
10. Yoo BC, Kim JH, Kim TH, et al. Clevudine is highly efficacious in hepatitis B e antigen-negative chronic hepatitis B with durable off-therapy viral suppression. Hepatology 2007;46:1041–1048PMID : 17647293.
11. Lim SG, Leung N, Hann HW, et al. Clinical trial: a phase II, randomized study evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics and anti-viral activity of clevudine for 12 weeks in patients with chronic hepatitis B. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2008;27:1282–1292PMID : 18363895.
12. Niu C, Murakami E, Furman PA. Clevudine is efficiently phosphorylated to the active triphosphate form in primary human hepatocytes. Antivir Ther 2008;13:263–269PMID : 18505177.
13. Kim MH, Kim KA, Lee JS, et al. Efficacy of 48-week clevudine therapy for chronic hepatitis B. Korean J Hepatol 2009;15:331–337PMID : 19783882.
14. Fischer KP, Gutfreund KS, Tyrrell DL. Lamivudine resistance in hepatitis B: mechanisms and clinical implications. Drug Resist Updat 2001;4:118–128PMID : 11512520.
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Every semester, members of the Honors Program are expected to meet at least one of three Honors Requirements
Honors Seminars are classes exclusive to members of the Honors Society. They are the most common way for members to fulfill an Honors Requirements, and Honors students are expected to take at least two over the course of their studies. There is a wide variety of subjects that are dealt with, and the classes are designed to combine knowledge from many academic areas.
Some of the seminars from past years include:
- The Singularity Event – taught by professor Bartley Richardson from the Computer Science department.
- Urban Ecology – taught by professor Shannon Galbraith-Kent from the Biology department.
- Abnormal Psychology from a Clinical Perspective – taught by professor Kathie Langen from the Psychology department.
- Crime and Film – taught by professor Beth Sanders from the Criminal Justice department.
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Congratulations to our new Expedition Managers, Clare Howes and Michael Combellack, who recently joined Global Action! Both will be working hard to engage and educate our students in global development issues and conservation, and we wish each every success in their careers here!
Clare Howes has a MSc in Polar and Alpine Change, and a BSc in Geography from Durham University. She has a professional background in expedition logistics coordination and safety management. Clare has previously travelled to Oman, Norway, Sweden, the Alps, Iceland, and the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.
Clare was on expedition in Nepal and Switzerland this year with Global Action groups. Clare says her best experience in Nepal was the fantastic hospitality from Nepalese and Tibetan families!
Clare is passionate about global climate change issues and recently volunteered to organise the logistics of a COP21 Climate Change Awareness Campaign in the UK, working with the British Antarctic Survey, UK Polar Network and Scott Polar Research Institute. She is a keen fell runner. In 2014, Clare was part of the team that won the British University Orienteering championships!
Clare is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and is a graduate of the renowned Stellar Leadership Development Programme. Clare is currently managing our Nepal and Switzerland groups.
Michael Combellack has a BSc in Biological Sciences, focusing on animal and conservation biology, from the University of Birmingham. He recently worked with Raleigh International for 3 years as Operations Manager in Borneo and Tanzania, where he safely managed 3-month long expeditions for 750 students, across 45 project locations in remote rural areas.
Michael has travelled to over 20 countries, and was on expedition in Zanzibar with Global Action this year. He says his best experience in Zanzibar was snorkelling on, and learning about, the diverse coral reefs with very knowledgeable Marine Rangers, and seeing the work of local charities to improve community lives.
From a young age, Michael travelled widely with his family to remote locations in South East Asia, which inspired him to pursue a career in development and conservation. He is an experienced project manager of community development projects, having managed the construction of children's development centres, safe water systems, sanitation units, and even the installation of 140 beehives for elephant fencing!
At the University of Birmingham, Michael captained the rugby team, and is a keen hillwalker and climber, having summited Mt Kilimanjaro and a number of peaks in the French Alps. Mike is currently managing our Zanzibar and India groups.
Congratulations to our 200 students!
Congratulations to our 200 students that have recently returned from summer expeditions in the Himalayas, Switzerland and Zanzibar Island! Each of you should be very proud of what you have achieved.
Special mention goes to our Nepal teams who rebuilt Gogan Higher School near Pokhara, enabling 70 Nepalese children to go back to school this year. Over the past 12 months, Global Action have invested USD $27,000 into high-impact community projects in West Nepal.


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Alright, kids. It's time for another lesson with TheBuddha. We're going to talk about arpeggios.
What are arpeggios and why should you care?
Well, if you've been playing guitar for any length of time, you've already come across them. Chances are, you already play them – and may not even know what they are. They are basically component parts of a chord.
Play a chord. Now, play the notes that make up that chord, one by one. That's a basic arpeggio. No, a scale isn't an arpeggio. A scale is a sequence of notes in a certain key. An arpeggio is a sequence of notes within a chord. Another name for the arpeggio is "broken chord."
The word arpeggio comes from Italian. It means to play a harp. Yup, imagine a harpist playing one string at a time in succession, and you've got an arpeggio. The same theory applies. If it doesn't sound right, you're doing it wrong and you should try again. (We're not big on formalities at this here establishment!)
Seriously, make a D chord and play the 3 2 1 strings, one at a time. There, you just played an arpeggio.
So, why should you know this?
They sound good – really. You'll hear them in all sorts of music and you've been playing them for years without even knowing. I suppose they probably come from classical but they are found in rock, bluegrass, jazz, and probably a bunch of other genres.
They are much handier than just the subset of chords you might know. Learn a few basic arpeggio shapes and you're good to go – you can play them in any key. I am not going to get into all the shapes and the progressions, 'cause there are all sorts of resources for you to use just from searching. My goal is just to get you started.
To get started the rest of the way, this site has a really good write-up about arpeggios:
Click to read very good introduction to arpeggios.
(I recommend learning the major and minor triad first. They're the most approachable.)
If you're in doubt, start with the root note and go from there. If you're playing in G, start with a G. Try a few different ways to pick and try a few different styles – do a hammer on and a string bend. Trust me, just keep poking at it and it will eventually come to you. You'll find your own little style inside the arpeggio world and you'll be able to accompany anybody, especially another guitarist who's doing chordal rhythms.
One final thing – don't let the notes sustain. Lift as soon as you pick or in time with the duration. You don't want them to run into each other and make a mess of things. That means you're making a chord and not playing an arpeggio.
So, don't let them scare you away. Don't worry about the theory. Find a technique that sounds good to you and practice it until you're happy. Find a few more techniques and truly enjoy yourself. The goal is to have fun. If you wanted mastery, you'd go to a good music school and not listen to some weirdo named TheBuddha.
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We have to skillfully protect and defend people Trump has terrified, which means having a little bit of spine and calling bullshit when we see it.
George Saunders
Mixing ardor and ethereality.
Ruth Asawa's artistic career endured the regrettable fate shared by many twentieth-century women. The late Japanese American artist never enjoyed a solo exhibition at a New York institution, and for the most part she remained eclipsed by her predominantly white, male peers. The last few years, however, have signaled a noticeable recognition for Asawa's composed sculptures in tandem with a growing engagement with the legacy of Black Mountain College, partly provoked by Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957, an in-depth group survey dedicated to that alternative institution's teachers and students. After announcing exclusive representation of the Ruth Asawa estate earlier this year, David Zwirner contributes to the burgeoning conversation around the artist's work with a concentrated survey, which includes painting, drawing, and photographs of her and her work in addition to Asawa's preeminent hand-woven wire sculptures.
In contrast to her tumultuous biography, Asawa's art contains a reclusive serenity, shrouding a life spent with struggle due to race and identity. California-born Asawa and her siblings grew up in a Japanese immigrant household that was devastated by a six-year separation from their father as the result of his internment along with many other Japanese Americans during World War II. Asawa herself was interned for a year in California and Arkansas. She later attended Milwaukee State Teachers College in order to realize her dream of becoming an art teacher, an attempt hindered by the systematic aversion for employing teachers of Japanese descent. A visit to Mexico to study art played a key role in the formation of her illustrious career. There, Cuban-born industrial designer Clara Porset introduced her to Black Mountain College, where Asawa eventually worked with Josef Albers, immersing herself in a modernist avant-garde that challenged the artistic norms of the time. For the twenty-year old artist, innovation manifested itself in wire, an everyday, humble material that rarely went beyond utilitarian purpose. In Asawa's hands, lines of thin copper, brass, or iron transformed into harmony.
The premiere of Asawa's grand oeuvre at David Zwirner does not disappoint. A generous selection of her wire sculptures suspend from the ceiling often slightly above eye level—just enough to let the viewer absorb their meticulous details and celestial presence. Visually, they separate into two categories: circular and vertical. However, at times Asawa blurs the distinction with upright pieces comprised of multiple spheres. In order to plunge into Asawa's mystical universe, close inspection is essential. Her intricate braids of wire—a material associated with masculine and industrial labor as opposed to yarn's pigeonholed femininity—float in the air as effortlessly as bubbles. The in-between aesthetic of knitted wire renders them ghostly, yet salient. The sculptures' unobtrusive postures allow for transparency and fluidity, and they permeate space similar to a puff of smoke.
"Life is like a line: there is a beginning and there is an end," explains Jonathan Laib, Director at David Zwirner, in his catalogue essay for Christie's 2015 exhibition, Ruth Asawa: Line by Line, "and Asawa has shown us another truth, another illustrated concept; the idea that there is no beginning or end, that there is a continuation." Ceaseless wire compositions—nearly all labeled Untitled with extensively descriptive subtitles—defy logic and labor, stunning the viewer with their unassumingly organic forms that in reality are the product of arduous repetition. Particular sculptures convey resonance with the human silhouette through their voluptuous curves and contours that seamlessly bend inward, as Asawa triumphs over her uncluttered medium, merging ardor with the ethereality of tightly woven wire.
Ruth Asawa is on view at David Zwirner in New York until October 21, 2017.
Osman Can Yerebakan is a New York-based art writer and curator. His writing has appeared in New York Times: T Magazine, Village Voice, Brooklyn Rail, ArtSlant, ArtAsiaPacific, Hyperallergic, ArtNewEngland, Art Observed, Filthy Dreams, and elsewhere.
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18. Ulysses S. Grant
Grant Land (June 1, 2013)
If you follow the Ohio River east from Cincinnati, before too long you get to Point Pleasant. The town has about 50 people today, which means it has exploded in since 1822, when it consisted of three houses. When Hiram Ulysses Grant was born, it created a statistically significant spike in the population. The council seriously thought about putting in a stop light.
Leather goods are the jumping off point for so many great adventures, and the story of U.S. Grant is no different. His father, Jesse, worked in the Point Pleasant tannery and rented a frame cottage from his boss. About a year after his first son was born, Jesse moved the family to Georgetown, Ohio, where there were exciting new opportunities in the leather business. It had just been named the county seat, they had just opened an S and M club, and no one made a finer gimp costume than Jesse Grant.
Allegedly. Take your historical anecdotes with a grain of salt, kids.
Fortunately for Point Pleasant, Grant's brief stay was enough to keep the town on the map until the end of time, or at least until the Chinese invade and start redrawing our maps as part of their evil Maoist brainwashing program. The birth house has actually gotten around: back in the day, after Grant had become a national hero, it was shuttled around to different fairs; by 1896 it was contained in a permanent structure on the state fairgrounds in Columbus. They finally brought the home back home in 1936 and installed it on the original foundation. It has been there ever since.
It's actually a little larger than when the Grants lived there, meaning it has three rooms now instead of one. The second room is where an old lady sits and hands out pamphlets. The third one has a museum case with, among other things, old buttons and a locket with some of Grant's hair. There's also a caretaker's cottage next door, which is inhabited by the old lady. She is very chatty and pleasant, and when she dies, they are going to have a very hard time finding someone willing to live in Point Pleasant year round and talk to weirdos about history.
It's a nice drive through farm country from Point Pleasant to Georgetown; you can do it in about 50 minutes, which means it would have taken eight months in 1823. When the Grants got there, it was a small but growing town. When I got there, the Grant Boyhood Home was locked and the alarm system was blaring. This gave me the opportunity to wander the streets of Georgetown in a perplexed daze for a few minutes, much like the teenaged Grant probably did.
After about 15 minutes, my guide the magical world of Grant showed up and unlocked the doors. Apparently, he had to drop his mom off at another nearby historic site, and on top of that it's not all that common for people to show up at the boyhood home exactly at opening time. Go figure.
Judging by the house, Jesse Grant must have been pretty good at tanning things. The Georgetown house started small, but if you count the basement, the finished version is a three-story brick structure with some fairly nice entertaining spaces. I don't know what qualified as upper-middle class in 1830s middle-of-nowhere Ohio, but that was probably it.
Hiram lived there through his mid-teens. According to the legends, he wasn't all that good at school, but he was some kind of a horse whisperer who was insanely good with animals. So think of him as the guy in your high school with a manual I-Roc convertible.
There's also the legend about Grant's start in the military. Then as now, it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to get into West Point; you needed a recommendation from your congressman, and there were only so many slots to go around. One of Grant's neighbors (about three doors down on the other side of the street) got a commission, but flunked out. Hiram was a good candidate to replace him, but Jesse -- who was politically opinionated -- was in some kind of pissing contest with Rep. Thomas L. Hamer. For the good of his son, Jesse asked the congressman for help, and Hamer was cool enough to let bygones be bygones. If Hamer were a douche, slavery would still be legal in the South. Clearly.
Georgetown knows something about catering to the discriminating history tourist, so they also maintain one of the old schoolhouses attended by Grant. There's not too much of interest other than a bench Grant used to use, but the docent was the aforementioned mother of the guy from the boyhood home, and she is happy to talk about his personal life once you've exhausted all the learning opportunities. Apparently she's never getting grandkids.
A House Divided (September 24, 2011)
In September 1843, Ulysses Grant reported to Jefferson Barracks, right outside St. Louis. He had graduated from West Point in the middle of his class, and inspired by the frontier spirit of his new home, he was blazing a glorious path to the very center of mediocrity.
Actually, a lot of journeys started at Jefferson. It was one of the military's most important training and mustering sites from the early 19th century up to 1946 -- Robert E. Lee once commanded the post, and Zachary Taylor did a few stints alongside the Mississippi, and my grandfather did his basic training there in WWII. Today, it's been divided up into a National Guard base, a veterans cemetery, some private housing developments and open fields. A few old powder houses have been converted to museums staffed by very courteous senior citizens. There was a cross-country meet going on when I came to visit, and I think generations of soldiers would be thrilled to know that high school guys in short shorts were cavorting over the same parade grounds where they once froze their nuts off.
For it gets cold on the Mississippi River. My grandfather has stories about overcoats getting so frozen they stood up on their own. Fortunately, Grant's West Point roommate was also at Jefferson, and happened to be from the St. Louis area. So there was always a chance of a homecooked meal, just a muddy horse ride away.
You're looking at White Haven, the home of Colonel Frederick Dent, who made his money in fur trading (that's not a euphemism). The house is pretty much a glorified log cabin; the main building is mostly vertical timbers plastered over and painted.
As for Fred, he's basically a Tennessee Williams character -- a domineering, patriarchal plantation owner who wasn't actually a colonel, but insisted on the title. He was a racist and a slave owner, and he liked to be the big shot: he had so many visitors, he painted his front door orange to make it easier for guests to find him from the main road. As the slavery issue started to divide the nation, his home was becoming an island of southern sentiment in a mostly anti-slavery town.
And of course, he had a hot daughter. Well, hot by 19th century standards. At least to Grant.
When presented with a plantation owner's daughter, you pretty much have to hit on her, so Grant obliged. According to the great park ranger who gave me the tour, Julia wasn't exactly receptive. Grant went with the "Steve Urkel" approach (the ranger's words) and wore her down. It didn't sound particularly hot and heavy: horse rides, reading book aloud to each other, and the Colonel chaperoning every meeting for a year. Then, to play hard to get, Grant left to fight in the Mexican-American War.
There's nothing like being shot at by Mexicans to galvanize a love affair, and they were married when he came back. The Colonel, thinking Grant a shiftless loser and did not particularly like him, decided that the only proper thing was for U.S. to move into White Haven, where he could be brainwashed into becoming a Southerner. Grant, realizing the tacit contract when you marry money, obliged. He got a nice chunk of land for his trouble, and after a time he also got a slave from his father-in-law.
To be fair, Grant made some effort to be his own man. When life gives you slaves, make lemonade:
That's Hardscrabble, which was built on Grant's parcel of land by Grant and William Jones (who was freed in 1859). He and Julia lived in that craphole for about four months. Then Julia's mother died, and Julia insisted that they move back in with dad. Hardscrabble is actually not in its original location; it was moved around a bit and used as a coffee shop in the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. The Anheuser-Busch family bought Grant's old farm as their country estate, and eventually moved the cabin to a new spot on the property. The estate (right next door to the National Park site) is now operated as "Grant's Farm," which combines a child-friendly zoo and safari park with an adult-friendly beer garden. For just $11, you can ride on a tram past Hardscrabble at 5 mph and never get within 50 feet of the building. But then you get to pet a goat, so ... I guess that makes it worth it?
But back to White Haven. A funny thing happened in the 1850s: Grant ended up taking over the family. The plantation wasn't exactly lucrative, and as anti-slavery sentiment started to spread, the Colonel found himself a social pariah. The Colonel kept reducing his slave holdings and renting out parcels of his land. Grant was scuffling himself, but he ended up slowly acquiring more of the property from his father-in-law. At the start of the war, the Colonel urged Grant to get on board with the Confederacy, but Grant (obviously) declined. The Colonel eventually came to live with Ulysses and Julia in the White House, which had to be as big a plate of crow as any parent ever swallowed.
The X factor in all this is Julia. According to my guide, she was living in the clouds; she enjoyed the perks of plantation living, never really gave much thought to the morality of slavery and focused on her perfect devotion to her father, husband and children (three of Grant's four kids were born at White Haven). They have a pretty nice museum in the old barn, detailing a marriage that included some long separations and sincere lovin'. Grant married a flake, but she was a flake with a good heart.
The house today is empty. The Grants rented it out when they left town for military and political pursuits, and when they did so they decided to store all the furniture in the nearby home of a relative. That home mysteriously burned to the ground in the middle of the day -- it might have been arson by abolitionists cheesed at the Colonel -- taking all the original furnishings with it. And the Grants never has a reason to refill the home, as they didn't retire to St. Louis; Grant eventually had to sell his wife's ancestral home to cover family debts.
Get the Lead Out (August 2014)
When U.S. Grant moved to Galena, Ill., in 1860, he had not yet actualized his potential. He was not yet the very best Ulysses Grant that he could be.
Basically, he sucked.
Grant had faded out of the military. He married the daughter of a Missouri plantation owner, but his father-in-law wasn't one of those cool plantation owners from the movies who two-fisted mint juleps and could shower a deadbeat son- in-law with riches. Instead, Grant scraped by as a mediocre farmer and failed businessman in the St. Louis area.
His own dad came to the grudging rescue. Jesse Grant was a tanner, and back then the leather goods industry was for more than bikers and sadomasochists. One of his sons was operating a leather shop in Galena, which at the time was a fairly big deal. It's not far removed from the Mississippi River, and it was home to delightful lead mines that sustained the economy before people started to sour on lead's mildly poisonous qualities. Farmers from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin might have dropped off some crops to ship downriver, then picked out a saddle for their horse and a ball gag for the missus.
However, Grant's brother had tuberculosis, and when you're coughing up blood on a regular basis it's nice to have a little help around the store. Grant took his wife, Julia, and their four children to Galena. They rented a modest home on High Street, on a crest overlooking the Galena River. Grant worked at the store, traveled around as a sales rep and accepted the fact that his soul had been crushed. In an independent film, this was the point where he would either start an affair or take swing dancing lessons in secret.
Fortunately for Grant, fate wanted him to star in a big-budget action flick. When the Civil War started, Grant made full use of his military credentials and took a bunch of cannon-fodder volunteers to Springfield. He eventually snagged a commission in the Union Army, and the rest is history.
Grant could have washed his hands of Galena, and after that much exposure to lead washing your hands is sound medical advice. But a group of 13 local Republicans and business leaders figured out that, once he won the Civil War, he might be a tourism draw. They got together in mid-1865 and bought Grant a new home on the other side of the river, with an even better view -- the truly amazing thing about fame is that once you're capable of buying anything you want on your own, people just give it to you for free. They gave Grant the house when he came through town on a victory lap, and it was his official residence for the next 15 years or so. He never really lived there for the long haul -- he was in Washington running the Army, then serving as president for eight years. But the house wasn't rented. A caretaker had it ready to go any time he stopped in town, and there were rooms for all his kids. Grant voted in Galena and during his political campaigns he stayed in town.
So there's actually something worth seeing. I came into Galena from the north, crossing the Mississippi at Dubuque and following the river south through ridiculously beautiful countryside. I parked the car in front of Elihu Washburne's house -- the congressman was one of the 13 homebuyers, and for a few weeks he was Grant's secretary of State. Walking down to the river, I got a glimpse of Galena's historic district, which is quaint as hell. And then I walked up the steep hill to Grant's home, to see exactly what you get for saving the nation.
It's not bad at all. I had a nice guide named Vernetta, who walked me through the parlor and the study while sharing most of the information above. They let you peek into the bedrooms, and they encourage you to admire the fine woodwork and wallpapering throughout the building. It's not opulent -- that was never Grant's style -- but it is respectably pleasant. The only ugly thing about the site is a statue of Julia on the front lawn. Speaking strictly as an impartial historical observer, she was a hag. And from what I've read, she wasn't all that bright. There may be a reason her husband was willing to stare death in the face repeatedly.
They're trying to build out the Grant site into a historical district, because the lead trade isn't coming back anytime soon. (Fun story: In the Grant house, the have samples of special Galena-produced pottery, which had an iridescent glaze; it's a big collector's item because they stopped using the glaze once they figured out that everyone drinking from the bowls and jugs was getting lead poisoning.) There is a historical general store next door, and a block up the street I spotted an old building with a statue on the porch. It appeared to be a "cigar store" Grant. Considering Grant died of cancer from smoking too many cigars, this is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
Grant's Tomb (April 29, 2007)
Here's a list of famous people named Hiram:
Ulysses S. Grant
And that is what I learned at Grant's Tomb. The inspiration for the world's dumbest trivia question is in New York City, at 122nd and Riverside, smack in the middle of Riverside Park. At 150 feet tall, it's the largest mausoleum in North America, making it our Taj Mahal. I'm willing to bet we have more folding chairs, though. Suck on THAT, India!
Grant and his wife, Julia, are in a sunken alcove, making it easier for elderly southerners to walk in, spit on Grant and leave quickly; the bodies are circled by anti-presidential zombie charms and five busts of Grant's favorite Civil War generals, all of which are staring in at their boss. This creeped me out at first, but after sleeping on it, I now would like Stevie Wonder, Mike Schmidt, Humphrey Bogart, William Shatner and Leeroy Jenkins watching over me in death (metaphorically, Stevie). Great Americans all.
And oh yeah, the mummified remains of Grant's servants are in a smaller tomb at 123rd and Riverside.
But what about the man himself? Grant is inspiring, in the sense that below-average people everywhere can look to his example and hope for a better life. Behold the TRIUMPH OF MEDIOCRITY!
Hiram Ulysses Grant (a mediocre name) was born April 27, 1822, somewhere in mediocre Ohio. He was sponsored into West Point by a congressman who accidentally put his name down as U.S. Grant. It stuck. He graduated 21 out of 39 (mediocre). He did nothing much in the Mexican-American War (mediocre), then kicked around from post to post before resigning from the Army. He tried to be a farmer in Missouri and failed (mediocre) so he begged his dad for a job in Illinois (mediocre) when the Civil War broke out. Then came the non-mediocre years: He got reinstated in the regular army, kicked substantial ass in the West, and got called east by Lincoln in 1864 to lead all the armies. Then ... back to mediocrity! He wasn't a slouch in the strategy department, but he beat Robert E. Lee mostly with human wave tactics (mediocre).
After that he was our mediocre 18th president, which was unsurprising considering that all his past job experience was in either killing people or going broke in horrible business ventures. Congress didn't like him and he basically did nothing for eight years while his buddies got involved in 3,423 corruption scandals. His biggest accomplishment was signing the bill creating Yellowstone National Park. It wasn't his idea. He just signed the paper.
After that he died. But it's a funny story! Grant was a pipe smoker, but you couldn't really get pipe tobacco on the front. Before a battle, a lackey gave him a cigar, and he was photographed at the battle smoking it. Newspapers ran the photo, and since generals were basically the only celebrities back then (eat your heart out, Petraeus) adoring fans sent him thousands of cigars. He started smoking tons of them and ... blammo, throat cancer. Yet another example of the irresponsible media taking down a Republican. Insidious.
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The Reichstag fire was at least a fire. Here, there is smoke and mirrors.
When Trump was in business, his shtick was stiffing contractors. If confronted, he would try some bombast and storm out of meetings, as he did the other day with congressional leaders, ending talks on the partial government shutdown caused by a crisis he has manufactured. His shtick now is stiffing all Americans. The technique is the same: Keep reality at a distance through hyperactive fakery.
.. A manufactured crisis, I said. It's worth recalling the 5,200 troops ordered to the southern border before the midterm elections to confront the "caravan of migrants." This was an exercise in manipulative illusion.
Monthly crossings over the southern border have declined in recent years. The number of migrants apprehended has also fallen over the past decade, with a recent tick upward. There is no humanitarian crisis, just as not a single mile of additional wall has been built since Trump took office.
But absent this noise, what does reality offer the president? Robert Mueller, Nancy Pelosi and Michael Cohen, the specters of his insomnia.
.. The essential distinction that Frankfurt, a professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University, makes is between lies and bull. As he writes, "It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction."
.. It is a habit "unconstrained by a concern with truth" whose essence is "not of falsity but of fakery." The addict of bull "does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose." He is "trying to get away with something." His "focus is panoramic rather than particular," and he shuns "the more austere and rigorous demands of lying."
Frankfurt's conclusion may be read as an ominous verdict on this president. The bull merchant "does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
It has been said that Trump's extraordinary election victory owed much to his intuitions about the anger in the heartland. There is some truth in this. But his essential intuition was into the readiness of Americans, suspended between the real and the virtual, for a post-truth presidency.
Quinta Jurecic, in an important essay for the Lawfare Blog, set out the dangers inherent in this shift before Trump took office. In the essay, "On Bullshit and the Oath of Office: The 'LOL Nothing Matters' Presidency," she cited Frankfurt and argued that Trump's "foundational disrespect for meaning and consequence" — that is to say, for reality and the very concept of law — would make it "impossible for Donald Trump to faithfully execute the laws of this nation and the duties of the oath of office and to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution."
The president's apparent readiness to "do national emergency," as he put it, over a manufactured border crisis amounts to a perfect illustration of this danger. The Reichstag fire was at least a fire. Here there is only smoke and mirrors.
I would add one element to the reflections of Frankfurt and Jurecic on bull. There may be something amusing, or at least innocuous, about the bullshit artists encountered in a lifetime. They may be waved away. But in Trump the element of sadistic cruelty in his personality (mocking the disabled, for example), and the sheer gall of his fakery, make of him a malignant, rather than a benign, bullshit artist. He happens to occupy the world's most powerful office.
Trump cannot help himself, I said. He can't and won't. But as citizens, "we have a duty to insist that words have meaning," as Jurecic writes. If they don't, neither does the Republic. That's what the ants told me as I gazed at them, troubled and fixated.
How to Destroy Democracy, the Trump-Putin Way
All around the world, strongmen are seizing power and subverting liberal norms.
fascism came out of particular historical circumstances that do not obtain today—
- a devastating world war,
- drastic economic upheaval, the
- fear of Bolshevism.
.. When Naomi Wolf and others insisted that George W. Bush was taking us down the path of 1930s Germany, I thought they were being histrionic. The essence of fascism after all was the obliteration of democracy. Did anyone seriously believe that Bush would cancel elections and refuse to exit the White House?
.. So maybe fascism isn't the right term for where we are heading. Fascism, after all, was all about big government—grandiose public works, jobs jobs jobs, state benefits of all kinds, government control of every area of life. It wasn't just about looting the state on behalf of yourself and your cronies, although there was plenty of that too. Seeing Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the press conference following their private meeting in Helsinki, though, I think maybe I've been a bit pedantic. Watching those two thuggish, immensely wealthy, corrupt bullies, I felt as if I was glimpsing a new world order—not even at its birth but already in its toddler phase. The two men are different versions of an increasingly common type of leader:
- elected strongmen 'who exploit weak spots in procedural democracy to come to power, and
- once ensconced do everything they can to weaken democracy further,
- while inflaming powerful popular currents of
- authoritarianism,
- racism,
- nationalism,
- reactionary religion,
- misogyny,
- homophobia, and
- resentments of all kinds.
.. At the press conference Putin said that associates of the billionaire businessman Bill Browder gave Hillary Clinton's campaign $400 million, a claim Politifact rates "pants on fire" and about which The New York Times' Kenneth Vogel tweeted, "it was so completely without evidence that there were no pants to light on fire, so I hereby deem it 'WITHOUT PANTS.'"
.. A Freudian might say that his obsession with the imaginary sins of Clinton suggests he's hiding something. Why else, almost two years later, is he still trying to prove he deserved to win? At no point in the press conference did he say or do anything incompatible with the popular theory that he is Putin's tool and fool.
.. These pantsless overlords are not alone. All over the world, antidemocratic forces are winning elections—sometimes fairly, sometimes not—and then using their power to subvert democratic procedures.
There's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey—remember how when he first took office, back in 2014, he was seen as a harmless moderate, his Justice and Development Party the Muslim equivalent of Germany's Christian Democrats? Now he's shackling the press, imprisoning his opponents, trashing the universities, and trying to take away women's rights and push them into having at least three, and possibly even five, kids because there just aren't enough Turks.
.. Then there's Hungary's Viktor Orbán, who coined the term "illiberal democracy" to describe these elected authoritarian regimes, now busily shaping the government to his own xenophobic ends, and
.. Poland's Andrzej Duda, doing much the same—packing the courts, banning abortion, promoting the interests of the Catholic church.
Before World War II Poland was a multiethnic country, with large minorities of Jews, Roma, Ukrainians, and other peoples. Now it boasts of its (fictional) ethnic purity and, like Hungary and the Czech Republic, bars the door to Muslim refugees in the name of Christian nationalism.
One could mention
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,
- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, and
- India's Narendra Modi as well.
Pushed by anti-immigrant feeling, which is promoted by
- unemployment and
- austerity,
right-wing "populist" parties are surging in
- Italy,
- Greece,
- the Netherlands,
- France,
- Germany,
- Austria, and even
- Sweden and
- Denmark.
And don't forget Brexit—boosted by pie-in-the-sky lies about the bounty that would flow from leaving the European Union but emotionally fueled by racism, nativism, and sheer stupidity.
.. At home, Donald Trump energizes similarly antidemocratic and nativist forces. Last year, outright neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, and Trump called them "very fine people." This year, Nazis and Holocaust deniers are running in elections as Republicans, and far-right misogynist hate groups like the Proud Boys are meeting in ordinary bars and cafés.
.. The worst of it is that once the leaders get into power, they create their own reality, just as Karl Rove said they would:
- They control the media,
- pack the courts
- .. lay waste to regulatory agencies,
- "reform" education,
- abolish long-standing precedents, and
- use outright cruelty—of which the family separations on the border are just one example—to create fear.
While everybody was fixated on the spectacle in Helsinki, Trump's IRS announced new rules that let dark-money groups like the National Rifle Association and the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity keep their donors secret.
.. American democracy might not be in its death throes yet, but every week brings a thousand paper cuts.
.. There's nothing inevitable about liberal democracy, religious pluralism, acceptance of ethnic diversity, gender and racial equality, and the other elements of what we think of as contemporary progress.
.. He has consolidated a bloc of voters united in their grievances and their fantasies of redress. The
- fundamentalist stay-home moms, the
- MAGA-hat wearing toughs, the
- Fox-addicted retirees, the
- hedge-fund multimillionaires and the
- gun nuts have found one another.
.. Why would they retreat and go their separate ways just because they lost an election or even two? Around the world it may be the same story: Democracy is easy to destroy and hard to repair, even if people want to do so, and it's not so clear that enough of them do.
Family separation lawsuit offers chilling details as Trump administration says it will fulfill federal court order
First of all, 15-by-15 size cells with 30 to 50 adults, sometimes children in them as well, with one toilet usually for those people to share. Usually, there's some privacy. However, it's still in the same room. And children and adults sharing that space. They're called iceboxes.
Many, many people of these refer them as so cold that they had to huddle together on cement floors. We also have some very gripping and frankly difficult-to-read personal testimonies. I want to point to one of them.
This is from a mother whose 14-month-old child was separated from her and from the father. They were reunited after 85 days. She wrote- "The child continued to cry when we got home and would hold on to my leg and would not let me go. When I took off his clothes, he was full of dirt and lice. It seemed like they had not bathed him the 85 days he was away from us."
She went on to say that she had thought, her child being so young, he wouldn't have really significant effects from the separation. But when she was reunited with him, she's worried that now actually he is really feeling and has changed because of the separation.
.. Throughout this, we see allegations of racial slurs, guards calling some of these immigrants stupid, and some very particularly troubling accusations, like this one from this mother.She wrote- "One of the officers asked me in Guatemala," her home country, "'Do they celebrate Mother's Day?' When I answered yes, he said, 'Then Happy Mother's day,' because the next Sunday was Mother's Day. I lowered my head," she wrote, "so that my daughter wouldn't see the tears forming in my eyes. That particular act of cruelty astonished me."
The New Cruelty
the New Cruelty is the Trumpian successor to the New Deal and Great Society... And, indeed, Lewandowski seems especially vile in an era in which vileness increasingly appears to be a career path. But was his insensitive gibe off-message? Or was it simply a cruder version of the New Cruelty that has displaced whatever was left of "compassionate conservativism"?.. Trump rode to the presidency by embracing broad, crudely designed policies—from the proposed ban on all Muslims to mass deportations of all illegals—that ineluctably lead to a zero-tolerance policy that demands the arrest of all illegal border-crossers, even those with infants or children... his supporters enthusiastically cheered polices that treat large populations as an undifferentiated mass, regardless of individual circumstances. These policies do not treat individuals based on the "content of their character," or their merit, or the exigencies of their circumstances, but on their religion, nationality, and immigration status... the president has cultivated a studied insensitivity, treating empathy as a sign of weakness or fecklessness... The distinctive rhetoric of Trumpism isn't merely the use of insult and invective against political opponents; it is also the brutal willingness to degrade and demonize others as "animals" and "rapists" while unsubtly comparing them to the sort of vermin who will "infest" the country... swaggering callousness became a hallmark of Trumpism, with harshness masquerading as toughness and cruelty as a sign of strength... Ironically, conservatives used to lead the charge against zero-tolerance policies, because they produce foolish, knee-jerk, bureaucratic responses that lack common sense and result in absurd outcomes... It was in the name of zero tolerance that a kindergartner was once suspended for bringing a dinosaur-shaped squirt gun to school and it was zero tolerance that led school boards to such excesses as expelling a high school student for having a single tablet of Advil in her purse... What's important to recognize is that the children were not collateral damage of Trump's policy: They were the entire point... Removing them from their parents was designed to be shocking because their trauma was intended as a deterrent... the pitiless separation of young children from their mothers was supposed to send a chilling message to anyone foolish enough to seek asylum here... More important, it was supposed to project strength, or at least the bully's imitation of strength... Perhaps more than any other trait, it is this that motivates Trump: his need to appear strong and his fear of looking weak... He is just another of the menagerie of misfit toys, in the likeness of Steve Bannon, who feed off Trump's sundry insecurities. They do not shape or influence those anxieties, they simply minister to them, encouraging the president in his use of spite to substitute for real strength... Fred Hiatt described the New Cruelty as the ultimate victory of Bannonism:
Truculent, anti-immigrant nationalism; disdain for the "deep state"; disparaging democratic allies while celebrating dictators: These are now the pillars of President Trump's rule. In his administration's policy, foreign and domestic, and in the compliant Republican Party, Bannonism is ascendant.
.. Bannonism is now indistinguishable from Trumpism.
while it's tempting to see Bannon's fall as an inflection point, the reality is that his departure does nothing to change the fundamental nature of this presidency, which continues to be shaped by Donald Trump's hollow core, erratic character and impulsivity….
As malign an influence as Bannon was, it seems naïve to now expect a more modulated or moderate Trump. Instead, we can expect Trump to attempt to insulate himself against Bannonite attacks by throwing out even more red meat for his base, and escalating the culture wars that Bannon has done so much to foment.
.. Bannon may have helped write the ill-fated travel ban, but it was Trump who denounced "Mexican rapists," and Trump who called for a Muslim ban. It was Trump, not Bannon, who rose from reality TV stardom to political prominence and power by spreading birther conspiracy theories.
.. It was Trump, not Bannon, who retweeted white supremacists and refused to distance himself from white nationalists during the campaign; Trump, not Bannon, who attacked a Mexican-American judge, demeaned women and mocked a disabled reporter... Divorcing Bannon doesn't fix what is wrong with this presidency. The cancer at the heart of this White House isn't the staff. It's the man in the Oval Office and he is not changing.


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Call an Identity Provider API
Once you successfully authenticate a user with an external Identity Provider (IdP), such as Facebook or GitHub, the IdP often includes an Access Token in the user profile it returns to Auth0.
You can retrieve and use this token to call the IdP's API.
The process you will follow differs, depending on whether your code runs in the backend or the frontend:
If your code runs in the backend then we can assume that your server is trusted to safely store secrets (as you will see, we use a secret in the backend scenario). If that's the case proceed to the backend section of this article.
If your code runs in the frontend (for example, it's a SPA, native desktop, or mobile app) then your app cannot hold credentials securely and has to follow an alternate approach. To see your options proceed to the frontend section of this article.
From the backend
Once you authenticate a user, the IdP often includes an Access Token in the user profile it returns to Auth0.
Auth0, for security and compliance reasons, does not send this token to your app as part of the user profile. In order to get it you will have to access the Auth0 Management API and retrieve the full user's profile.
The steps to follow are:
- Get an Access Token that allows you to call the Auth0 Management API.
- Call the Auth0 Management API's Get Users by ID endpoint, using the Access Token obtained in step one. This endpoint returns the full user's profile, which contains the IdP Access Token.
- Extract the IdP Access Token from the response and use it to call the IdP's API.
Step 1: Get a Token
You will need an Access Token to call the Management API.
If this is the first time you are requesting a Management APIv2 Token, you will need to create and configure an application that can be used to call the API.
To do so, go to Dashboard > APIs > Auth0 Management API > API Explorer and click Create & Authorize a Test Application.
This will create a new application and grant all scopes of the Management API. This means that the tokens generated for this application will be able to access all Management API endpoints.
Can't see the button?
If you don't see this button, it means that you have at least one authorized application already. In this case you can either update the scopes of an existing application and use that, or create a new one following these steps:
- Go to Dashboard > Applications
- Click + Create Application, select Machine to Machine Applications and click Create
- At the Select an API dropdown select
Auth0 Management API
- Click Navigate to the API and Authorize
- Set the toggle to Authorized and enable the required scopes
It is recommended, for security reasons, that you only assign the required scopes to the application you will be using. For this particular case, the scopes you need are:
You can grant or remove scopes from an application, at the Dashboard > APIs > Auth0 Management API > Machine to Machine Applications tab.
You are now done with the configuration part, and you are ready to get your Management API token.
To do so, go to the Test tab. There you can find ready-to-use snippets that you can use to get a token.
Pick your application using the dropdown at the top, and choose your language of preference for the snippet.
Copy and run the snippet. Extract the
access_token property from the response. This is what you will use to access the Management API.
More info on the snippets
The snippets make a
POST operation to the /oauth/token endpoint of the Auth0 Authentication API, using the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials grant. This is the grant that machine-to-machine processes use to access an API. For more information on the flow, refer to Client Credentials Flow.
Token expiration
The token you received has, by default, an expiration time of 24 hours (86400 seconds). To change this, update the Token Expiration (Seconds) field, at the Settings tab and save your changes. The next token you generate will use the updated expiration time. The maximum value you can set is 2592000 seconds (30 days) however our recommendation is to keep the default value.
Security warning
These tokens cannot be revoked. To minimize the risk, we recommend issuing short-lived tokens (and granting only the necessary scopes for each application). For a production environment you can configure a simple CLI that will fetch a new token when the old one expires. You can find a sample implementation in Python here.
Step 2: Get the full User Profile
Using the Access Token you got in the previous section, call the Get a User endpoint of the Management API, in order to get a user's profile:
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID' \
--header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'
var client = new RestClient("https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
package main
import (
func main() {
url := "https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID")
.header("authorization", "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN")
var request = require("request");
var options = {
method: 'GET',
url: 'https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID',
headers: {authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'}
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
if (error) throw new Error(error);
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"authorization": @"Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" };
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID"]
[request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
if (error) {
NSLog(@"%@", error);
} else {
NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
[dataTask resume];
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
import http.client
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")
headers = { 'authorization': "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" }
conn.request("GET", "/YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID", headers=headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
url = URI("https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["authorization"] = 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
import Foundation
let headers = ["authorization": "Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"]
let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users/USER_ID")! as URL,
cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
if (error != nil) {
} else {
let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
Replace these values:
USER_ID: The ID of the user for whom you want to call the IdP's API.
YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN: The token you got from the previous step.
Where do I find the User ID?
- For testing purposes, you can find a user ID at Dashboard > Users. Select a user and copy the value of the user_id field.
- For your implementation, you can either extract this information from the ID Token (get the value of the claim sub), or call the /userinfo endpoint of the Authentication API (get the value of the response property user_id).
Step 3: Extract the IdP Access Token
Within the user's
identities array, there will be an Access Token that you can extract and use to make calls to the IdP's API:
In most cases, the user will only have one identity, but if you have used the account linking feature, there may be more.
In this sample response we can see that our user had only one identity:
"email": "firstname.lastname@example.com",
"email_verified": true,
"name": "John Doe",
"given_name": "John",
"family_name": "Doe",
"picture": "https://myavatar/photo.jpg",
"gender": "male",
"locale": "en",
"updated_at": "2017-03-15T07:14:32.451Z",
"user_id": "google-oauth2|111199914890750704174",
"nickname": "john.doe",
"identities": [
"provider": "google-oauth2",
"access_token": "ya29.GlsPBCS6ahokDlgCYnVLnDKNE71HBXPEzNhAPoKJLAGKDSe1De3_xclahNcdZXoU-26hCpa8h6240TV86dtaEQ4ZWoeeZduHDq_yeu9QyQqUr--S9B2CR9YJrLTD",
"expires_in": 3599,
"user_id": "111199914890750704174",
"connection": "google-oauth2",
"isSocial": true
"created_at": "2017-03-15T07:13:41.134Z",
"last_ip": "127.0.0.1",
"last_login": "2017-03-15T07:14:32.451Z",
"logins_count": 99
You are now ready to call the IdP's API. Please refer to the IdP's documentation for specifics on how to do so.
From the frontend
If you are working with a public application (SPA, native desktop, or mobile app) then this is the place to be.
As you might have read earlier in this article, the process for calling IdP APIs from a backend process includes the following steps:
- Get an Access Token in order to access the Auth0 Management API
- Use said token to retrieve the user's full profile from the Auth0 Management API
- Extract the IdP's Access Token from the user's full profile, and use it to call the IdP's API
You cannot follow the same process from a frontend app because it's a public application that cannot hold credentials securely. The credential we are referring to, is the machine to machine application's secret which you use to make the call to
/oauth/token, at the first step of the process.
SPA's code can be viewed and altered and native/mobile apps can be decompiled and inspected. As such, they cannot be trusted to hold sensitive information like secret keys or passwords.
There are some alternatives you can use.
Option 1: Build a proxy
You can build a process in your backend and expose it to your application as an API.
The backend process will implement the steps of the backend section. You will call the IdP's API from the same backend process so the Access Token is never exposed to your public application.
Then, you will call your proxy API from your public application using the respective flow for your case:
- Implicit Flow if you are working with a SPA
- Authorization Code Flow with Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) if you are working with a mobile application
Show me how to do it
If you haven't implemented this before, you might find our SPA + API article useful. It covers a different scenario but it does explain how to configure Auth0, call an API from a SPA, and implement the API validations. It comes with a sample that uses Angular 2 and Node.js. We also offer a Mobile + API variation (the sample uses Android and Node.js).
Option 2: Use webtasks
If you don't have a backend server, and you don't want to set up one, then you can leverage serverless technology, using webtasks.
Webtasks are the Auth0 way to create HTTP endpoints with Node.js and access them from anywhere. It's a way to safely execute server-side logic, when you do not have a backend. They come with a command line tool and an editor. For more info, see the webtask.io documentation.
In this scenario, you will create a webtask and implement the steps of the backend section. Then the webtask will call the IdP's API so the Access Token is never exposed to your public application.
Your application will invoke the webtask with a simple HTTP request and manipulate the response appropriately (for example, render the user's GitHub repositories in the UI).


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