In a plot development for our ongoing “Second Gilded Age” documentary/farce that I feel would get a lot of notes for being over-determined in any script-writing (get it?) class, Facebook h
When Chris Claremont was handed the reins in Uncanny X-Men #94, he took the opportunity to put his stamp on almost every facet of their world – and the mutant metaphor was no exception. Given his xt
In a weird way, I feel like I’d almost written this essay before I’d even started. Throughout previous discussions about why Captain America would rebel against unjust authority, or how he’d rea
Last week, the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed how the War on Poverty came around on direct job creation too late to have an impact on the
Last week, the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed how the 1946 Employment Act jettisoned the New Deal’s legacy of direct job creation i
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Last week (although it was more than a week ago), the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed the most controversial chapter of the book, which ar
Last week, the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed how the Works Progress Administration triumphed over the Public Works Administration’s