I am a Jew. I was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, attended a Jesuit college, know The Lord’s Prayer and The Nicene Creed by heart and have never been inside a synagogue for any other purpose besides watching a friend… Read More ›
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The Richwine Curve
Alright my dewy-eyed, upwardly-mobile sons and daughters of the American Revolution—it’s high time to put away them crisp-cornered, technicolor Trapper Keepers you got atop your desks because we’re fitting to have a little IQ Test here that’ll determine whether you… Read More ›
What’s in a Name? Racist Mascot Edition
Thanksgiving is one of those things in American life that’s good not to think about too hard for fear of ruining the holiday altogether. In a vacuum, and as explained to a 3rd grader, Thanksgiving is a wholesome, historic parable… Read More ›
What We Know Going Into Election Day
October has come and gone and there has been no surprise. For all of the hemming and hawing over the volatility and uncertainty surrounding the 2012 election, not much has actually changed since the conventions began in late August. Barack… Read More ›
Made in the USA: Anti-Chinese Political Advertising
For my generation, and for the Boomers and Gen Xers who came before us, World War II is viewed through rose-colored and Hollywood-manufactured glasses. Our knowledge of the conflict is mostly confined to low-angle shots of US infantry charging up… Read More ›
Imprison & Invest: Private Prisons in The Age of Incarceration
This too I know–and wise it were If each could know the same– That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. Oscar Wilde,… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 