I have a piece in The Week about True Detective. What sort of moral responsibility do artists have not to exploit, and thereby perhaps propagate, moral panics? The aesthetic power of The Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will has not absolved their creators...
One of the most predictable responses to any criticism of a heretofore socially respectable entity is that the critics have hidden and disreputable motives. The critics, it's said, want to.
...Historical item: Two months ago, Dianne Feinstein used her position on the Senate Intelligence Committee to enable passage of Bush’s FISA amendments, granting the President vast new warrantless surveillance powers..
Some of our more third party oriented commenters like to say that Obama has done nothing for workers. Well.... President Obama this week will seek to force American businesses to pay more overtime to millions of workers, the latest move by his administration to confront corporations...
Julie Boonstra is one of the people peddling random anecdotes in political ads as part of the Republican campaign to deny non-wealthy people access to affordable health care. Her story.
I am no expert on psychiatry. I do however have a great interest in American visions of the Soviet Union. Albert Maysles' 1955 film "Psychiatry in Russia" is a pretty.
Kevin Drum has a post relevant to the current debate on Democratic economic policy. I agree with some of the individual points, but don't really agree with the general framing. "Democrats simply don't consistently support concrete policies that help the broad working and middle classes," he...
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When I was teaching The Selling of the President 1968, I sent McGinniss an email asking if I could ask him questions. He responded that he'd be more than happy.
There are a depressing number of howlers in Thomas Frank's interview with Adolph Reed. Much of the content repeats arguments made in his earlier pieces, so I won't add to what to what I've already written. But Reed's defense of Nader does not get off to...
The Real Management™ wrote this article it thinks you would enjoy. Now it is off to write about the True Detective finale, as well as finish editing -- and.
Grounded, now available in hardcover from Amazon. Also at your local bookstore, if you happen to be incredibly fortunate. Will be ratcheting down the non-stop book PR over the next.