"Malbone" is a reference to the Malbone Street Wreck. In 1918, during a strike by transport workers, an elevated train in Brooklyn crashed and killed 93 persons. The train was operated by a dispatcher, inexperienced at train operation and unfamiliar with the route. It rounded a curve at five times the posted speed and crashed. When I learned about the Wreck in the 1960s, as a student who rode that line every day, it resonated with my love of trains and my support of unions. It continues to remind me that while the Right worships an ahistorical future in which money rules over all, the Left carries the burden of historical memory and the imperative to value people, especially the voiceless.