As the year winds to its close and TV critics have tried to sum it up, a narrative has emerged. 2018 was the year when TV (by which I mean mostly scripted, narrative TV, the kind I pay attention to) hasn't so much Peaked as...
Month: December 2018
I have a year-end article for NBC News about how how institutions have enabled Trump -- who has never had anything like majority support -- more than they've constrained him:.
Good lord, this is disgusting. These are dangerous times for undocumented immigrants. ICE has been super-charged by the Trump administration. And ICE’s empowerment has been lucrative for the companies that.
This is the grave of Bruce Goff. Goff was born in 1904 in Alton, Kansas to a watch repairman. The family was pretty poor and Goff grew up mostly in Tulsa with a period in Denver. Often, they didn't have enough food to eat every...
I was driving past the Culinary Institute of America the other day and I couldn't help but wondering how such an education is possibly worth the cost. This is a.
Yesterday, for the second time this year, I had the chance to visit the Gettysburg National Military Park. The first time was in September, as part of the Theories of.
In 2016, British investigator Christopher Steele collected a dossier of unverified intelligence tips related to Donald Trump’s secret connections with Russia. Nobody outside (and, for all we know, inside) the Mueller investigation knows exactly how many of his allegations are true. It would be surprising...
Some thoughts on how the IP front of the Trade War with China is going... Conflicts over intellectual property.
This is the grave of Jack Johnson. Born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, Jack Johnson was the greatest challenge to white manhood in the Gilded Age. He left school as.
On the occasion of the new Coen brothers movie, LGM is pleased to welcome back Elizabeth Nelson, frontwoman of the great band The Paranoid Style, to talk all things Coen with the critic Adam...
College football bowl games -- postseason made for TV exhibition matches that have become, from a competitive perspective, even more painfully and boringly superfluous now that the sport's championship is.
Indeed: An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in United States custody early Christmas Day, the second death of a child in detention at the southwest border in less than three.