1. So, taking year end stock & am pleased that among the 150 articles I wrote, a few are worth revisiting. My best is this piece on Richard Hofstadter, which is also about why American liberalism fails to understand & effectively fight the radical right https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/richard-hofstadter-library-america-review/ …
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3. I think this piece on Joe Biden & the politics of grief gets at some of the deeper undercurrents of 2020.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-secret-weapon-grief/ …
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4. How Sarah Cooper cracked the Trump comedy code (there were others who would take up this theme but I think I was among the first to try to figure Cooper's comedy out):https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sarah-cooper-trump-comedy/ …
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5. Over at the Walrus I wrote about the history of Canadian cartooning:https://thewalrus.ca/how-to-make-it-as-an-indie-cartoonist/ …
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6. On the CIA and rock music:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/wind-of-change-cia/ …
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7. My review of the HBO series The Plot Against America takes up some of the themes of my Hofstadter piece in a different form:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/plot-america-hbo-trump/ …
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8. Finally, for the holiday season, I defend Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer against the censoring impulses of the radical centrists at the Atlantic:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer-atlantic-flanagan/ …
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Much of the last four years have felt like Dhalgren.
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His early SF was enormous fun to read.
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The thing that impressed me (as a teen) when I read Nova is how much it seemed to be inspired by comic books. The heightened reality, the almost super-powered characters, the heists...
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