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If Not Now, When?: The Bizarre Time Warp Facing U.S. Political Democracy
No less stunning than the fear and hesitations evoked among moderate Democrats by the presidential aspirations of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren has been the certainty, particularly among younger progressives, regarding the […]
The New Feudal Lords: Jane Mayer Meets D/G
The current bizarre time-lock—of zany and destructive events, fake news and impotent, because always-belated incredulity, and punitive measures taken against the guardians of democracy, where making sense becomes an everyday struggle—is all […]
Unlost in Lost in Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee
Following a recent reading given at the University of Washington in Seattle by the writer Katja Petrowskaja from her book Maybe Esther, an audience member posed a particularly difficult question. Perhaps provoked […]
Incomparable: Richard A. Macksey, 1931-2019
It is with deepest sorrow but also with recharged inspiration and resolve, that the critical community has learned of Dick Macksey’s dying, on July 22, 2019, on the eve of his 88th […]
How Trump’s Followers Construct Alt-Truth from Lies, Part 2: Daemonic Invention
Commentators describe Trump as a leader who thinks he is telling the truth but who in fact lies constantly to followers, followers who know he lies but believe he does so intentionally […]
How Trump’s Followers Construct Alt-Truth from Lies, Part 1: A Deep Story for Shallow Deception
I first began to think about this topic early in the 2016 presidential campaign. At that time, no one took Donald Trump’s run for office seriously. Most commentators didn’t think even Trump […]
#Me Too at the Movies: Précis
And no more turn aside and brood Upon love’s bitter mystery William Butler Yeats One of the surprising, but in the end most consequential casualties of the #MeToo movement may well be […]
Welcome to the Great Dismissal! Part 2
The question, in a nutshell, faced by New York Times opinion writers of remarkable diversity at the midterm reboot runs as follows: how do the Democrats retrofit their arguments such that they […]
Welcome to the Great Dismissal!
We live in an age when feedback loops—among which number critique—have reached so rapid a rate of acceleration that they coincide with and to some degree even anticipate the events ostensibly precipitating […]
14:41
We are 4: two adults, two children, 4 and 8, walking back from the Museum für Naturkunde, along Invalidenstraße, 10557 Berlin. We stop at 50-51, location of the Hamburger Bahnhof, the city’s […]
Back to the Critical Future: Romania
Exceptionality rules every attempt to narrativize the history or culture of the states (or quasi-national entities) making up the Balkans. And in this respect, Romania is no exception. Romania is the “Balkan” […]
Political Slogans
LOVE TRUMPS HATE If this slogan claims to state a fact about the world, it is quite obviously false. If it offers a metaphysical principle, it is even falser: love and hate […]
Neoliberals, Neocons, and Neofascists Unite! Trumpism and the New Political Order
Much has rightly been made of how the US Election, like Brexit before it, represents a devastating rebuke of the status quo. Most famously, Michael Moore predicted the improbable vote “to be […]
A Triumph for the Dangerous Profession: New York Times Magazine, August 14, 2016
In the August 14, 2016 edition of its Magazine, devoted to the theme of “Fractured Lands,” the New York Times achieved new depth and scope in the coverage of perhaps the signal […]
Norbert’s Nightmares: On Zombie Wars, with a Nod to Cybernetics
There is no homeostasis whatsoever. We are in the business of cycles of booms and failure, in the successions of dictatorship and revolution, in wars which everyone loses, which are so real […]
The Ferguson/Ayotzinapa Dictionary (Encyclopedia of Oppression)
NOTE I started writing the attached FERGUSON AYOTZINAPA DICTIONARY while on de facto paternity leave, in lieu of being able to work on larger projects, often writing with my right hand while holding […]
How Not to Disappear in America: Notes on a Panel on Human Rights and Video Technology
One could be excused for thinking that the panel discussion convened this Thursday in San Francisco around the future of human rights and media technology would focus on tools for evading […]
Helen Tartar, Editorial Director, Fordham University Press, 1951-2014
Helen Tartar Editorial Director, Fordham University Press, 1951-2014 The critical community staggers at the news that Helen Tartar, Executive Editor at Fordham University Press, perished on March 3 this week in an […]
Recently Published: James H. Bunn, The Natural Law of Cycles
The Natural Law of Cycles assembles scientific work from different disciplines to show how research on angular momentum and rotational symmetry can be used to develop a law of energy cycles as a local […]
“Today I was refused entrance to the U.S.” Ilija Trojanow and U.S. Securitarianism
On the morning of Monday, September 30, 2013, the acclaimed German writer and translator Ilija Trojanow was checking in at the airport in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil for a flight to Miami. […]
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