Recent Politics Columns

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Friday, October 30 2009

Can Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Resurrect BAM?

By Roland Laird

Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement.

(more Write Black at You)

Friday, October 23 2009

The Name of This Land is Hell: Mexico in Literature

By Rodger Jacobs

When the author of a sitcom-styled novel about Mexican heritage cannot resist mentioning the modern-day carnage, then it's fair to assume that the murders have become a significant part of the national identity.

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Thursday, October 15 2009

Sitting on the Mountaintop

By Michael Abernethy

Did Obama calm the rash of criticism regarding his inaction on gay rights with his recent speech to the Human Rights Campaign?

(more Queer, Isn't It?)

Tuesday, September 15 2009

Captain Obama and the Final Frontier

By George Reisch

Obama's four-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new kinds of political confusion; to boldly go where no rational health-care reformer has gone before.

(more Pop Goes Philosophy)

Friday, August 28 2009

Rabid and Rascally Creatures: Richard Brookhiser’s “Happy Darkies”

By Rodger Jacobs

Familial or political, conservatives in America actually have no moral boundaries whatsoever.

(more Deconstruction Zone)

Thursday, August 27 2009

Dear Mr. Denby: In Defense of Inglourious Basterds

By Michael Brett

Quentin Tarantino drives critics nuts because he loves movies. 'New Yorker' critic David Denby drives The Rockist nuts because he hates movies.

(more The Rockist)

Tuesday, August 11 2009

TIE Fighter: A Post 9/11 Parable

By L.B. Jeffries

As the only Star Wars game that has you serving under the Empire without remorse, TIE Fighter lets you experience being a servant to a massive government just after a terrorist attack.

(more Moving Pixels)

Sunday, March 29 2009

When Can We Be Friends?

By tjmHolden

When it comes to sports, while we may be swimming in the cool pool of popular culture, if those sports happen to pit South Korea against Japan, then we have strayed into the searing hot tub of politics.

(more ReDotPop)

Monday, March 9 2009

Bailing Out the Bailout

By Bill Reagan

To help pay back the debt, we may need President Obama to wear an actual UPS uniform for the “delivery” of his next State of the Union speech.

(more Rabble Without a Cause)

Wednesday, January 21 2009

Welcome, Miss Addams, to Your History

By Michael Abernethy

The personal life of 20th century America's Mother of Modern Social Work provides us with lessons during our 21st century debate on GLBT rights.

(more Queer, Isn't It?)

Thursday, January 15 2009

Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Eloquence of Rioters

By Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

This poetry, symbolically violent in its choice of literary form and symbolically subversive in its choice of Creole, reveals the literacy of rioters.

(more Channel Crossings)

Tuesday, January 13 2009

Three Icons and the Worlds They Left Behind

By Mark Reynolds

Miriam Makeba, Odetta and Eartha Kitt both fully represented and completely transcended their moments in time

(more Negritude 2.0)

Monday, December 15 2008

The California Smack-down

By Michael Abernethy

The victory of Proposition 8 could be the best thing to happen to the LGBT community in a long time, but only if we pay attention to its lessons.

(more Queer, Isn't It?)

Friday, December 12 2008

The Politics Inside Black Pop

By Mark Reynolds

Will black pop artists still see themselves as outsiders now that a black person is President? Will they use their cultural platform to criticize him if need be, just as they did to help elect him?

(more Negritude 2.0)

Monday, December 8 2008

Presidential Angling

By Chris Justice

Now that Barack Obama is America's 44th president, in the spirit of his predecessors, he might want to take up fishing.

(more The Tackle Box)

Thursday, December 4 2008

Frost/Nixon: An Interview with a Vampire

By Chris Barsanti

Frank Langella seethes and pulsates with cunning as the deposed president in 'Frost/Nixon', a far cry from the grinning cowboy executive Josh Brolin presented in 'W'.

(more The Screener)

Monday, November 24 2008

You Think You Know Obama?

By Glenn McDonald

Internet memes meet political postmortems as we uncover more salient facts about America's next president.

(more PopShots)

Wednesday, November 19 2008

One Last Legacy for Bush

By Bill Reagan

With George W. Bush eager for a way to salvage his legacy, perhaps we can throw him a bone in the name of Homeland Security.

(more Rabble Without a Cause)

Tuesday, November 11 2008

You’re Gonna Get a Lot More Girl Talk

By Meta Wagner

Even though the presidential and vice-presidential candidates didn't win the posts they were gunning for, Americans have a lot of women winners, this election.

(more Vox Pop)

Tuesday, August 12 2008

Dragging the Old Nag to the Racetrack, Again

By Michael Abernethy

Once again, gay rights have been thrust into the center of a political campaign. Will it be a winning strategy again?

(more Queer, Isn't It?)

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