The Confession
“The Sun” by Edvard Munch, 1911 - 1916 I am by genes and time and bad luck a madwoman. A madwoman is shut in her own mind, but she can speak more freely than...
Gone fishin'
Hi beloved readers, With me having just handed in the manuscript for my second book (about the Christian Right, much of it inspired by the work I did for...
Labor Pains and Gains
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Notable Sandwiches #69: French Dip
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The Christian Right's Masculinity Problem
There’s a diagram that’s instantly familiar to a good many people who have been educated as evangelical Christians. It was originally designed and...
The Making of Donald Trump: The Nineties
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Notable Sandwiches #68: Francesinha e Francesinha Poveira
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The Rise & Fall & Rise & Fall & Rise & Fall of Rudy Giuliani
By the time you read this, Rudy Giuliani will have surrendered at the Fulton County jail in Georgia for his role in the racketeering case against Donald...
What is "The Great American Novel"?
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Notable Sandwich Special: Flashback
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Herman Melville Goes to Maui
Ed. Note: When my grandparents moved to Maui in the 1930s, they settled in Lahaina. That’s where my grandfather was as he watched several Japanese bombers...
Notable Sandwich #67: The Fool's Gold Loaf
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The Making of Donald Trump: The Eighties
In Sunday’s Culture Club post for paid subscribers, we took a look at how the media covered Donald Trump’s rise in 1970’s New York, as the flashy real-estate...
The Making of Donald Trump
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Notable Sandwiches #66: Fluffernutter
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The Christian Right's Deal With the Devil
“Witches' Sabbath” by Francisco Goya, 1821-23 It was a frigid desert-winter day on January 15, 1992, when a couple on the run were apprehended by Las Vegas...
The Village Voice's Hip-Hop Nation
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Oppenheimer, Shatterer of Worlds
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A Killer Reading List
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A Lineup of Midsummer Classics
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