‘War in 140 Characters’ Is to the Point
David Patrikarakos has written an engaging narrative that covers the activities and surroundings of eight 21st century social media crusaders.
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On the Tight Confines of Madeleine Albright’s Cold War Intellectual Straitjacket
The status quo of the past 30 years facilitated a massive transfer in wealth and public resources away from the average American and into the hands of a wealthy minority; a radical coup if ever there was one. Yet it was achieved democratically. A response to Madeleine Albright's Fascism: A Warning.
Why Are Evangelicals So Full of Fear? and So Supportive of Trump? Interview with Historian John Fea
As discussed with PopMatters, in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, Fea finds long roots in answering his questions, but he clears a path forward, too.
“We are all Rachel Dolezal”: on Asad Haider’s ‘Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump’
Among other critiques of identity politics, Haider believes that we each can slip between identities at will. Indeed, it's a universal human condition.
Kanye West: The Iconoclast Gives In
How the allure of newness is leading Kanye West astray.
How the Nobel Committee and the Great American Read (Among Others) Got Philip Roth Wrong
A sense of bitterness remains for those of us mourning the loss of this final great literary lion of the 20th century.
Dispatches from the Sunken Place: Kanye, Kim, and Cosby
Get Out's Sunken Place is not at a distant location -- it subsists and persists in the here and now. Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Bill Cosby should know this.
What Does Trump Owe Putin? Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s ‘Russian Roulette’
These hard-hitting investigative reporters deliver the last (for this month, at least) word on Trump's mysterious infatuation with Putin.
Daryle Lamont Jenkins of Antifa Doc ‘Alt-Right: Age of Rage’ Isn’t Waiting for Approval
Jenkins, founder of One Peoples Project, tells PopMatters that contrary to the fear many Americans feel, it's actually life-affirming to talk about fascism and racism.
Informed or Inflamed? Author Steve Almond Talks About How We Consume Trump
With the recent release of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Steve Almond talks in-depth about the US president whom most parents wouldn't even let on the playground -- and about his beef with the American left.
Is the Revival of ‘Roseanne’ Merely Televisual Grave-Robbing?
The return of Roseanne brings with it some complicated political baggage -- and it brings Dan Connor back from the dead.
‘Bunk’ Joins the Dots Between Barnum and Trump
Kevin Young painstakingly presents the history of hoaxes and why we keep falling for the same old shtick.