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Trumped, But Not Out. Identity Politics in America, and the new Other

06/02/2016

An essay on how demographics have changed America, and how this affects the politics of identity....

The Tr(i)ump(h) of Identity Politics

02/02/2016

Something about Donald Trump appeals to a large number of American voters. What is it? Douglas Bulloch offers some answers....

Star Wars and the Escapism of the Mindless

29/12/2015

What will a future Democratic president's agenda will entail? Hint: Take note of which Republican declarations Democratic partisans are fuming in self-righteous outrage against now....

A Viagra Republic will Rise. Or Not. Election Cycle Anomie

03/11/2015

Return of the carnival of false hope and manufactured fear. The US Election Cycle hots up. Or, more accurately, reheats a tired forula...

Painting the Broken American Dream (Louie Metz)

08/09/2015

Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. ...

A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet

09/08/2015

The way "our" people are humanized, and the “terrorist” demonized is classic media sleight of hand....

Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

22/05/2015

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

21/06/2013

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

Gangsters and Gunslingers : The American Museum in Britain

23/03/2013

Los Angeles was the last Western boom town – a place where elderly cowboys mingled with celluloid stars on Hollywood backlots. Wyatt Earp ended his days there. Gangsters and Gunslingers, at the...

Newark State of Mind

08/04/2012

'They say Newark is the new Brooklyn, which was the new East Village, a re-birthed and post-cool SoHo.' Scott Laudati sums up the Newark art scene....