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2024

15 December - Who Gets Burnt in the Politics of Passion?
1 December - Get the Hell Out of My Way
11 November - Macbeth Had Ambition
19 September - Atavism in the American Mass Psyche
9 September - Final Act
21 August - The Timeline of Nostalgia
26 July - Stranger From Another Planet Attends RNC 2024
8 July - Phrases for Thought: July 4, 2024
11 March - Dare to Say
10 February - The Politics of La Commedia

2023

14 August - Words Written at 80
5 March - The Speech of Robots
21 January - Civics 1.1: Structures of Feeling

2022

2021

2020

5 December - Trying to Repair a Room in a House Still Burning
20 November - Rules of Engagement
14 November - The 77/72* Phenomenal World Divide
6 November - Nothing Sacred
30 October - The Final Stampede
23 October - Fractal Sites of Resistance
16 October - Our Territory is Fractal, Our Mapping Hyperreal
4 October - Fractal Politics 2.1
2 October - Something Far Out of the Norm is Liable to Happen
4 September - What to Expect in Trump’s America
28 August - Clear Markers and Dark Delusions
23 August - Anything to Salvage From the Trump Nightmare?
16 August - What Trump and the Republican Party Teach Us
11 August - American Failures: August, 2020
1 August - Law & Order vs. Anarchy, Personal Freedom vs. Medical Science
19 July - Dark Army of Enablers
27 June - Racism Baked In
14 June - Defunding the Paradigm
6 June - Ubu Orange
30 May - Conditions Close at Hand
24 May - Will Things Fall Apart Now or in November?
13 May - Who’s in a Catch-22?
4 May - Probabilities of Change
17 April - Post-Pandemic/Post-Trump
12 April - The Pataphysics of Pandemic
3 April - Prezdemic: Lines written in Quarantine
3 April - A Machine to Beat President Trump
3 April - Dispelling the Darkness
3 April - Vichy Democrats vs. the Master Voice
3 April - Will There Be No Retribution?
3 April - The Muck We’re In
31 January - Who’s Speaking?
17 January - Resolutions and Obstacles/2020
15 January - What Plutarchy Nurtures

2019

21 December - Divisiveness and Beyond
13 December - Equally Determined: To Impeach/To Support
6 December - What We Must Do
24 November - Once Upon a Time – Shots in the Hyperreal (on Tarantino’s New Film)
22 November - The Self-Unravelling Trump Cannot Avoid
20 November - In the Looming Shadow of Civil War
5 November - The Dialogue of Divisiveness
10 October - The Battles Now
19 September - The Vox Populi
7 September - A Voting Calculus
2 August - Something Wrong
19 July - Gaming the Climate
11 July - Can Trump Be Beaten, Regardless?
21 June - The Mad King in His Time
31 May - “Get Out of the President’s Way!”
11 May - Trump Unbound
10 May - Can We All Keep Ourselves From Being Crazy?
8 March - No Strategies to Erase Damage Already Done
11 February - Two Roads Diverged
18 January - Will Trumpism Outlive Trump?

2018

28 December - What is It About the the American Character?
7 December - Tribal Justice
19 November - Twitter: Fast Track to the Id
19 November - Up Ahead
19 November - The Age of Misrepresentations
19 November - The Public Mind
31 August - A Disingenuous Congressional Election Ahead
17 August - First Amendment Rights and the Court of Popular Opinion
30 July - The Reptilian Brain Rules Now
10 July - Denmark First
10 July - What Merit in the Meritocracy?
3 June - Damage Done
15 May - That’s the Problem: Nothing Proves Anything
1 April - The Hope and Reality of Change
15 March - A Most Profitable Marketing Frontier: the Construction of Inevitability
3 March - Who’s Guilty and of What?
23 February - Broken Lives
16 February - In the Post-Truth Classroom
10 February - Bottom-Feeders with Low Information
5 February - Beatriz at Dinner: Eating Up the Whole World
4 February - Strange Alliances
26 January - Robots Can Stand the Heat
19 January - The ‘Worlding’ of the Party-less
13 January - What to Worry About and What Not to Worry About

2017

18 December - The Axioms of the Other
1 December - The Time Was and Remains Ripe for Trump, the Trumpians and the Republican Shills of Plutocrats
5 November - Riches, Racism and Recuperation
22 August - Easy Access to the Abyss
11 August - Trump’s End
28 July - Choosing the ‘Arteries that Make Money’
22 July - The Mythos Meme of Choice
15 July - Our House of Cards
9 July - “SO”
9 July - The Democratic Party’s Abandoned Fronts
30 June - What the Democratic Party Should Know
23 June - What to Wonder Now
16 June - What Happens to the Lost and the Forgotten After Trump Goes?
10 June - It Can Happen Here
5 June - Making Sense Beyond Opinion
20 May - A Culture of Narcissism, a Politics of Personality
14 May - What the Present Reveals: Possibilities
7 May - What the Present Reveals: Probabilities
7 May - Facts, Opinions, Tweets, Words
7 May - The Rot Within
7 May - Psychotocracy in a Post-Truth World
10 April - A Post-Truth Presidency in a Post-Truth Age
10 April - March Madness Outside the Basketball Court
13 March - The Rough Beast We Ourselves Have Created
1 March - The Fourth Estate vs. the Trump Regime
28 January - A Defensive Wall Against an Illiberal Regime
6 January - Our Political Factions: January 2017
5 January - Upheaving the Fourth Estate
5 January - Catastrophic Thinking as We Head to the Inauguration
4 January - The Great Unwinding of Public Education: Detroit and DeVos

2016

12 December - Fake News is Subjective?
2 December - The Winds at Their Backs
23 November - Who Is Giving Thanks This Thanksgiving?
21 November - A Psycho-Politics of Implosion
18 November - Brain Implants AND Streaming Real-Time Videos?
6 November - Crossing the Empathy Wall
2 November - Seething Anger in the Post-2016 Election Season
6 October - Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
14 September - Über-Globalization or Über-Xenophobia?
18 August - Blood Will Tell: The Purge: Election Year (2016)
7 August - The New Arrangement on the Game Board of U.S. Politics
25 July - The Politics of Crazy and Stupid
8 July - Republic of Distraction: Trump and the Fear of Mob Rule
1 July - How We Reached the Point Where We Can’t Hear Each Other
21 June - An Instinct of Destruction
20 May - Hyperdemocracy or Hypermodulation?
16 May - Pataphysical Conditions on the Ground
29 April - Who’s the Better Neoliberal?
27 April - Core Beliefs and the Popular Tide
13 April - “The `Share’ Reality of Politics, Plutocrats, and the Media”
30 March - They Failed Themselves
18 March - Reaping the Whirlwind
11 March - When Bernie Fails, Look to Trump (?)
1 March - Scalia in Wonderland: “The Question is Whether You Can Make Words Mean So Many Different Things”
16 February - The Reality of the Situation is Not Clear….But Trump Is
10 February - Politics and Techno-Consciousness
31 January - The Best Conservatism … and the Darkest
23 January - The World Imagined by Benedict Anderson
20 January - The Hateful Eight: History’s Dark Bounty
8 January - There’s This and There’s That: New Year’s Resolutions 2016

2015

23 December - If [Fill in the Blank] Becomes President
17 December - How We Ensure Our Imprisonment Within a Vicious Circle of Our Own Making
4 December - A Politics of Stupid and How to Leave It Behind
13 November - ‘With Only a High School Education’: Trend Toward Dying
4 November - The Dark Politics of Not Speaking About Substantive Issues
29 October - Psychotic Shooters on the Open Frontier of Profit
17 October - Gun Control, Illegal Aliens, Moochers, Planned Parenthood, Gay Marriages, “Big Brother” Government and Obama
8 October - The Wreckage in Sight We Fail To See
28 September - Bernie Sanders: He’s Not Black, But He May be Your Brother
19 September - The American Middle Class: the Political Chosen People?
9 September - Plutocracy, Gentrification and Racial Violence
3 August - Trump Finds a Role as America’s Sovereign Citizen
20 June - Boyhood: When Art Is Just Winging It
17 May - Endless Deferment of Meaning: The Media’s Inequitable Melee of Events and Words
29 March - Our Millennial Age of Magic
25 January - Bringing Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange into Focus

2014

15 December - Fatal Eruptions on the American Scene
5 November - At the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Fear Is the Entrée
21 July - #Hashtag: Hunger Games Catches Fire, Audience Entertained
26 May - Hearing the *Ping* of Poverty – or Not
22 April - The Code of Crisis and Disaster
31 March - The Economics of Immiseration, the Politics of Seduction
14 March - WhatsApp? Readers and Writers in a Post-Truth World
18 February - The 2014 Elections Have Already Happened
1 February - Doing the American Hustle
21 January - Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal

2013

19 December - Captain Phillips: Colliding with the Real
18 December - A Modest Proposal, 2014
8 December - “Do What Thou Wilt,” or Who Imagined Ted Cruz Into Existence?
12 November - US Higher Education: The New “Treasure Island” for Investors
4 November - Three Reasons Why Politics in the US Are Doomed
22 October - Habits of Mind and Time: From JFK to Now
11 October - The ‘Free Exchange of Ideas’: Our New Normal
3 October - Writing Professor Under Fire For Attack Against Republicans: On the “Free Exchange Of Ideas”
30 August - Syria: U.S. Credibility at Stake: Really?
28 August - Gulliver’s Tale of Three Food Stores: Part I
10 August - Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
1 July - “So Have Things Gone”: A Place Beyond the Pines
1 May - Pulping American Moral Exceptionalism
10 April - Weaponized Food–Do We Need a Striped Eggplant?
1 March - The emergence of greater-than-human sports…and baseball
27 February - Illusions, War, and Profits
21 February - Our Strange TV Food World

2012

15 December - The Yet Unclaimed Baggage of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
29 October - An Era of Post-Truth Talk
18 October - Ten Ways We Don’t Care For Our Children in the U.S.
18 October - Profiling the American Electorate: 2012
28 September - Gulliver’s Travels in Food, Gardening and Cooking: Chronicle One
27 September - That Personally Irresponsible 47%
24 September - The Coming Middle Ages
11 August - The Presidential Election Season: When Memes Rule”
11 August - The Numinous Automaton
11 August - The Liberal Psyche: Session One
11 August - In a feverish state of mind, Gulliver enters a bizarre world of presidential politics
11 August - Beyond 140 Characters: The Devil in the Details
11 August - “The Presidential Election Season: Envisioning the Future”
3 August - The Presidential Election Season: the Future Envisioned
23 April - The Artist: Mystification Beyond Artistry
23 April - Facebook Can Go Public, but Can It Build Solidarity?
25 February - Charles Dickens 200: Great Expectations: Bright Hope and Dark Resignation
21 February - Wealth, Culture and the Education Gap
21 February - Mitt Romney Can Reside at Today’s Proverbial ‘Downton Abbey’… Newt Gingrich Cannot
21 February - Grounded in the World after Eden
19 January - An Archaic Postmodern View of Occupy Wall Street
12 January - Occupiers Break Through: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
11 January - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised … But There’s a LiveStream
11 January - The Neoliberal/Right-wing Psyche

2011

16 December - ‘Misfits’: Rebels With Too Many Causes
4 November - ‘Fringe’: Classic Realism in a Postmodern Space
30 September - The New Barbarians
30 September - How the Most Dangerous Game Is Being Played
11 September - This Mad River Overflows: Mother Nature’s Austerity Program
4 August - The Most Dangerous Game
3 August - Green Lantern
3 August - Darkening the Image of American Wealth and Power
23 July - Unions Serve the Tea: the Rage Against the Employed and the Unionized
23 July - Choice in All Things: Consumer Financial Protection as the “Plain Vanilla Approach”
10 July - Why the Rich Get Richer, and Other Truth Stories
10 July - Living Backward The Millennials’ Alice
10 July - Class Warfarin:Antidote
6 June - The “Evils of Entitlement”
6 June - Our Market Regime and Public Education
22 March - “When the World Is Turned Upside Down and Protest Is Privatized”
16 March - True Grit: Digerati Go Western? Millennials Go “Back in the Day”?
9 March - Where are “The People”?
5 March - Capturing the Millennial Demographic?
4 March - Class Warfarin: Hemorrhaging
4 March - Class Warfarin: Dosage
4 March - Class Warfarin: Autopsy
4 March - “Gekko Redux, Zuckerberg ‘Rock Star,’ and the President: Players All”
11 February - Our Market Regime and Public Education
2 February - State of the Union: Unnamable Politics and Useful Idiots
25 January - Hold Yourself Personally Accountable
13 January - The Wellsprings of Football and Blizzard

2010

30 December - The America Endangered in The American: A Dark Allegory
1 December - Waiting for “Superman”: Private Markets and Public Education
9 November - Naturally More Stupid on Average
7 November - To Gaga Is to Dada
7 November - Eat Pray Love : When Ruin is Not a Gift
7 November - “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
6 November - The President and the Tiger: Just War, Pacifism, and Enlightened Self-Interest
6 November - The Perils of Being Up in the Air
6 November - The Dude Abides
6 November - The Deep Morals of Inglourious Basterds
6 November - Sons of Anarchy: Rebels and Bad Subjects with a Cause?
6 November - Dexter at the Tea Party
6 November - Autopsy TV

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