David Mamet shows that being an accomplished writer doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of writing some pretty stupid things.
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The Glory of Earned Media
The Washington Post gives Bobby Jindal a big wet kiss.
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Aaron Swartz’s Final Code
The death of an Internet freedom activist points to the future of popular resistance.
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Bring Me Your Angry, Your Paranoid, Your Masses Huddled In Their Bunkers…
Glenn Beck announces plans to build an entire city, where the crazy can be contained in one place.
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Media Violence versus Real Violence
In the days since Wayne LaPierre of the NRA blamed the Sandy Hook massacre on violent movies and video games (in particular, for some reason, Natural Born Killers, a film that came out 19 years ago and was a critique of the media’s obsession with violence), a number of people in the entertainment industry have […]
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More Downton Abbey, Less Grand Theft Auto? Not Gonna Happen.
Last week, my sort-of opposite number at ThinkProgress.org-culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, who also writes for The Atlantic and Slate-posted the kind of prescriptive think piece about Our Violent Culture that makes old geezers like me heave a hefty sigh as we finger our own dog-eared membership cards in the vast left-wing conspiracy. Just for the […]
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Purity Culture Is Rape Culture
The shocking assault in India reveals that rape isn’t about sex—it’s about controlling women’s lives.
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Conservative Projection Takes a New Angle
We have to govern by crisis, they say, because Obama likes it that way.
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Conservatives Get Glum
They’re looking for a way out of their predicament, without much success.
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It Isn’t Easy Being Fox
Why they’ve sidelined Karl Rove: being all things to all conservatives can make for some tricky moments.