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March 19, 2024

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Playing the fear card.  December 31, 2022.
Only joking.  November 30, 2022.
Hobgoblins.  October 31, 2022.
A lesson in wrongology.  September 30, 2022.
Reality Check.  June 30, 2022.
True Evil.  May 31, 2022.
Stumbling through the fog.  April 30, 2022.
World-shaking events.  March 31, 2022.
Real Science.  February 28, 2022.
Of some highly convenient truths.  January 31, 2022.
Vulgar chants.  December 31, 2021.
Deliberate falsehoods.  November 30, 2021.
No Regrets.  October 31, 2021.
Real words, real meanings.  September 30, 2021.
Sanity Clause.  June 30, 2021.
Volte-face.  May 31, 2021.
Offside penalties.  April 30, 2021.
Reality show.  March 31, 2021.
Democracy dies in the media.  February 28, 2021.
Truth or Dare.  January 31, 2021.
United only in hate.  December 31, 2020.
Of men & manners.  November 30, 2020.
A Mystery.  October 31, 2020.
Good and Evil: Now Everyone Knows Where to Find Them.  October 29, 2020.
How the Media Continue to Influence Public Opinion After Losing the Public’s Trust.  October 22, 2020.
The Scandal of the Media’s Reporting on Scandals.  October 16, 2020.
The Narrative Imperative .  October 9, 2020.
On Trump’s Decorum and the Media’s Lies.  October 1, 2020.
Mostly peaceful.  September 30, 2020.
Chewing the ‘Could’: From Climate Change to Breonna Taylor.  September 24, 2020.
The Madness of the Media as They Consider Trump.  September 19, 2020.
After algebra.  June 30, 2020.
Experts in spate.  May 31, 2020.
Cancel nation.  April 30, 2020.
Polite fictions.  March 31, 2020.
Ripley’s believe it or else.  February 29, 2020.
Uncivil service.  January 31, 2020.
Just “politics”.  December 31, 2019.
Revolutionism redux, Part III.  November 30, 2019.
Revolutionism redux, part II.  October 31, 2019.
Revolutionism Redux, Part I.  September 30, 2019.
Report from an alternative universe.  June 30, 2019.
Irony of Ironies.  May 31, 2019.
Avenging reality.  May 7, 2019.
Make-believe worlds.  April 30, 2019.
Not the Same as Shame.  March 31, 2019.
Geography Lessons.  February 28, 2019.
Twilight of the Unwoke Guys.  January 31, 2019.
Yet it does fly.  December 31, 2018.
Civil Was.  November 30, 2018.
Quid est veritas?.  October 31, 2018.
Constituting Truth.  September 30, 2018.
Paradise Recycled.  August 13, 2018.
Hungry like the Wolf.  June 30, 2018.
Principles, Parties, and Polarization.  June 25, 2018.
Stormy Weather.  May 31, 2018.
Trying times.  April 30, 2018.
Zip ties and media lies.  March 31, 2018.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Reputation.  March 26, 2018.
Methods of Madness.  February 28, 2018.
Putting Down the Big Dog.  January 31, 2018.
New directions in scandalology.  December 31, 2017.
Othering Whites.  December 4, 2017.
Spate of Hate.  November 30, 2017.
Right side vs. white side.  October 31, 2017.
Decency for Deplorables.  September 30, 2017.
Fantasia on a Theme.  September 18, 2017.
A “narrative” outworn.  June 30, 2017.
A Wilderness of Mirrors.  May 31, 2017.
Of leaks, links and lies.  April 30, 2017.
Who Governs America?.  March 31, 2017.
Cessation of the Oracles.  February 28, 2017.
Faking it and Making it.  January 31, 2017.
Groovin’ on the Shock.  December 31, 2016.
Press & Prejudice.  November 30, 2016.
After the Fact.  October 31, 2016.
The End of the News.  September 30, 2016.
House of Cads.  June 30, 2016.
Master of Suspense.  June 7, 2016.
Scandals and Experts.  May 31, 2016.
Politics Without Honor.  April 30, 2016.
A Man or a Mouse?.  March 31, 2016.
The King of Tastelessness.  February 29, 2016.
Manners Makyth Man.  January 31, 2016.
A Topos of Chaos.  December 31, 2015.
Parodic Crudeness.  November 30, 2015.
Trumped up narratives.  October 31, 2015.
On Their Honor.  October 5, 2015.
Sixteen no-Trump.  September 30, 2015.
Power Coupling.  August 31, 2015.
A Ghost’s Lament.  July 27, 2015.
Cuddlers and cutthroats.  June 30, 2015.
All the latest fashions.  May 31, 2015.
Scandal, or lack thereof.  April 30, 2015.
The irony of p.c..  March 31, 2015.
The New Rules of Journalism.  February 28, 2015.
Heads Over Heels.  February 16, 2015.
Irony, in context.  January 31, 2015.
Cowardice: A Brief History, by Chris Walsh.  January 10, 2015.
Strategic Thinking.  December 31, 2014.
The Uses of Outrage.  November 30, 2014.
Crocodile Tears on the Back Nine.  October 31, 2014.
Talking to Themselves.  September 30, 2014.
Oneself in Others.  September 22, 2014.
Removing the Magic from Mozart.  August 31, 2014.
Some Eminent Utopians.  June 30, 2014.
Requiem for the Chatterley Classes.  June 29, 2014.
Dean of Contradictions.  June 9, 2014.
Bad words.  May 31, 2014.
Among the Supremely PC.  May 31, 2014.
Negative side effects.  April 30, 2014.
Monumental Disasters.  April 30, 2014.
Enviable positions.  March 31, 2014.
The Naked and the Dead.  March 31, 2014.
Unhappy Anniversary.  February 28, 2014.
Frozen in Ideological Time.  February 19, 2014.
Casualties of War.  February 3, 2014.
Liberal 2.0.  January 31, 2014.
The Truth Will Set You Free.  December 31, 2013.
Truth Wimps Out.  December 31, 2013.
No ears to this request.  November 30, 2013.
Historectomies.  November 29, 2013.
The Dream Team.  October 31, 2013.
The Heartlessness of the Matter.  October 30, 2013.
Sanity: an obituary.  September 30, 2013.
Why They Fight.  September 29, 2013.
Criminal Elements.  August 11, 2013.
Reminders of America’s Decline.  July 30, 2013.
Bases Loaded.  July 29, 2013.
Theories of Relativity.  June 30, 2013.
The Mole in Don Draper.  June 29, 2013.
Speak No Evil.  May 31, 2013.
Wincing at Cumberbatch.  May 23, 2013.
Oh, the Irony!.  April 30, 2013.
As She Likes It.  April 29, 2013.
The Naked and the Famous.  March 31, 2013.
Selective Moralism.  March 30, 2013.
The American Way of War Movies.  March 6, 2013.
Outrage Against the Machine.  February 28, 2013.
All That Trash.  February 28, 2013.
Herb Stein’s Law.  January 31, 2013.
Unreal Realities.  January 30, 2013.
Sweet Teeth.  January 25, 2013.
The Cycle Repeats.  December 31, 2012.
Get Real.  November 30, 2012.
Enter Alternative Reality.  November 29, 2012.
The State of Our Nature.  October 31, 2012.
Lexicographic lies.  October 31, 2012.
Wisdom of the Age.  October 1, 2012.
The Dignity of Scandal. . ..  September 30, 2012.
All Is Fakery.  September 29, 2012.
Lionel Asbo.  August 31, 2012.
Up From the Ruling Class.  August 30, 2012.
Welcome to Fantasyland.  June 30, 2012.
Laughing on the Wrong Side.  June 29, 2012.
Henry and His Wives — Again.  June 8, 2012.
The Guardians of the Truth?.  May 31, 2012.
Look Back in Hunger.  May 30, 2012.
The Echo Chamber.  April 30, 2012.
What nice girls aren’t.  April 29, 2012.
Honor Bound.  April 28, 2012.
The Morality of Normality.  March 31, 2012.
Pseuds and Artists.  March 28, 2012.
Progressive Derangements.  February 29, 2012.
The Left-wing Fantasy.  February 29, 2012.
Why 3-time Oscar nominee Malick is grossly overrated.  February 23, 2012.
Rome and Rhetoric.  February 9, 2012.
Middle Class Gloom Fictionally Dispelled.  February 3, 2012.
The Nonpartisan Charade.  January 31, 2012.
The Dawn of Print.  January 30, 2012.
Scandals Ad Absurdum.  December 31, 2011.
Behind the Headlines.  December 31, 2011.
Believing is Seeing.  December 19, 2011.
Sex, lies and Amanda Knox.  November 30, 2011.
We’re All Leninists Now.  November 30, 2011.
A Partisan Memorial.  October 31, 2011.
Monuments to Lost Meaning.  October 31, 2011.
Heaven Help Us.  September 30, 2011.
The Incivility of Civility.  September 30, 2011.
Cut and dried.  September 7, 2011.
Can You Wiig It?.  August 25, 2011.
In Our Bitter World.  June 30, 2011.
Black Box Controversies.  May 31, 2011.
Trash Collection.  May 31, 2011.
Preening to the Converted.  April 30, 2011.
Cerebrofacturers.  April 30, 2011.
Man Down.  April 26, 2011.
Too Stooped to Conquer.  March 31, 2011.
The Art of Discrimination.  March 30, 2011.
Madness & the media mind.  February 28, 2011.
Taking “Offense”.  February 28, 2011.
Rise of the Trolls.  January 31, 2011.
Happy Days With Blondie.  January 5, 2011.
Gag Rulers.  December 31, 2010.
Legislating the Art World.  November 30, 2010.
The World’s Greatest Blowhards.  November 30, 2010.
Our Norman Rockwell and Theirs.  October 31, 2010.
Bien pensants, maudit peasants.  October 31, 2010.
The Pursuit of Happiness.  September 30, 2010.
In Our Own Right.  September 30, 2010.
Defining a Decade.  September 20, 2010.
Shockless.  August 19, 2010.
The Elite Beat.  June 30, 2010.
Rebels Without a Clue.  June 15, 2010.
Cut the Blather.  May 31, 2010.
Getting to Know Miley Cyrus.  May 15, 2010.
Why They’re Wrong and I’m Right.  April 30, 2010.
Avatar and the Flight from Reality.  April 29, 2010.
The Laughs Keep Coming.  April 29, 2010.
Reality Without Rohmer.  March 31, 2010.
One or the Other.  March 31, 2010.
Unhappy is the Land.  February 23, 2010.
The End of History.  February 23, 2010.
It’s Only Common Sense.  January 31, 2010.
Brace Yourself.  January 19, 2010.
Early Americans.  January 4, 2010.
Denial of the Obvious.  December 31, 2009.
Down the Memory Hole.  November 30, 2009.
An American Tragedy.  November 30, 2009.
Our Diminished Debate.  October 31, 2009.
Look At Me.  October 19, 2009.
A Bias Against Honor.  September 30, 2009.
Rotten Apples.  September 29, 2009.
Let The Sky Fall.  September 11, 2009.
The Triumph of Fantasy.  August 27, 2009.
Irony Without Irony.  June 30, 2009.
Reality and the Postmodern Wink.  June 24, 2009.
Superfluous Kings for Messengers.  May 31, 2009.
Escaping Ideology.  May 31, 2009.
“John Had Nothing But Friends”.  May 25, 2009.
Everybody is Familiar.  April 30, 2009.
Two Cultures in One.  April 30, 2009.
We Are All Utopians Now.  April 3, 2009.
Elite Escapism.  March 31, 2009.
The Death of Politics.  March 31, 2009.
The Club of Cool.  February 28, 2009.
The Mind of the Past.  February 27, 2009.
Oops! I'll Do It Again. And Again. And Again....  February 27, 2009.
Honor Among Bankers.  February 9, 2009.
The Mystification of Change.  January 31, 2009.
Enemies of the Good.  January 29, 2009.
The History of an Election.  December 31, 2008.
Carefully Crafted Narratives.  November 30, 2008.
The Black Holes of BHL.  November 30, 2008.
Culture Benders.  November 30, 2008.
The Choice of Sarah Palin.  October 31, 2008.
Saying Something Stupid.  October 30, 2008.
Hollywood’s Hero Deficit.  October 28, 2008.
Is Stupid Making Us Google? .  October 28, 2008.
Martian Chronicles.  September 30, 2008.
Trash Triumphant.  September 29, 2008.
Getting It.  August 31, 2008.
In Defense of Snobbery.  August 26, 2008.
Milton: Better than Shakespeare?.  August 17, 2008.
Grand Larceny.  June 30, 2008.
Smear Tactics.  May 31, 2008.
The Shock is Over.  May 31, 2008.
Blurring the Lines.  April 30, 2008.
Remember to Laugh.  April 30, 2008.
Defining Definitions Down.  April 26, 2008.
Rock-Star Status.  March 31, 2008.
No Room for the Gentleman Amateur.  March 28, 2008.
A New Kind of Right.  March 25, 2008.
Nerd Do-Wells.  February 29, 2008.
A Kick in the Pants.  February 29, 2008.
Samurai Sage.  February 3, 2008.
Sense of Superiority.  January 31, 2008.
Among the Mad Simpletons.  January 30, 2008.
Clooney Tunes.  December 31, 2007.
Heroism, Modernism and the Utopian Impulse.  December 14, 2007.
Ken Burns’s War.  November 30, 2007.
Losing Sight of History.  November 29, 2007.
Right Wing Fantasy.  October 31, 2007.
A Public Blogging.  October 31, 2007.
The Hero Vanishes.  September 30, 2007.
Gotta Get a Gimmick. . ..  September 30, 2007.
Making it Official.  August 27, 2007.
The Liberationist Myth.  June 30, 2007.
Getting it Right?.  June 30, 2007.
Rule Britannia?.  May 31, 2007.
End of Story.  May 30, 2007.
Our Childless Dystopia.  May 21, 2007.
Feared, Loved, Ridiculed.  May 10, 2007.
Mister Libby to You.  April 30, 2007.
He Wore a Yellow Stripe.  April 29, 2007.
Making Much of Thomas Hardy’s Well-Beloved.  April 23, 2007.
Time on the Cross of Hype.  March 31, 2007.
Slaves to Moral Self-Congratulation.  March 29, 2007.
Death of a Hero.  March 26, 2007.
We Vote for Brand X.  February 28, 2007.
Eastwoodian Aftermaths.  February 26, 2007.
American Dreamer.  February 9, 2007.
How Hollywood Lost Its Romantic Groove.  February 9, 2007.
Delusions of “Reality”.  January 31, 2007.
Conventional Cuts.  January 29, 2007.
Biased Sensationalism.  December 31, 2006.
A New Era in Scandalology.  November 30, 2006.
What's the Story?.  November 29, 2006.
Crockumentaries.  October 31, 2006.
Versions of the Truth.  October 31, 2006.
The Silly Season.  September 30, 2006.
Passion Without Reason.  September 26, 2006.
Past the Political, to the Healing and Rebuilding.  September 11, 2006.
Cheap Laughs.  August 31, 2006.
Blockbuster Banality.  August 25, 2006.
A Clone's Lament.  August 25, 2006.
We Don't Need Another Superhero.  August 11, 2006.
Absent at the Creation.  July 31, 2006.
Forever Young.  June 30, 2006.
Press Permeations.  June 18, 2006.
Judas Makes a Comeback.  May 31, 2006.
Finding it in a Movie.  May 30, 2006.
Entry Points.  May 12, 2006.
A Plague of Scandals.  April 30, 2006.
Humanized Without Honor.  April 25, 2006.
Writer's Block.  April 22, 2006.
Warlord Rules.  March 31, 2006.
If It’s Not Brokeback, Fix It.  March 30, 2006.
Condescending Respect.  February 28, 2006.
Spielberg Stress Disorder.  February 27, 2006.
The Field of Honor.  January 31, 2006.
On Sex and Violence.  January 31, 2006.
The Hollywood Turkey Farm.  January 7, 2006.
In Defense of Cover-Ups.  December 31, 2005.
Manicheanism à la Mode.  November 30, 2005.
All McKinneys Now.  October 31, 2005.
Feeling Nothing.  October 30, 2005.
Professors in Trouble.  October 15, 2005.
The Plame Game.  September 30, 2005.
Talking Dirty.  September 30, 2005.
An All-American Scottish Wit.  September 2, 2005.
What “Objectivity”?.  August 31, 2005.
Star Turns.  August 31, 2005.
A Noble Mêlée.  August 17, 2005.
Bioethics at the Movies.  July 18, 2005.
Rosebud-Hunting.  July 12, 2005.
Bottled Whines.  May 31, 2005.
Marketplace Morality.  May 31, 2005.
Unparalleled Propaganda.  May 6, 2005.
Responding Unkind.  April 30, 2005.
American Propaganda.  April 29, 2005.
The Real African Queen.  April 27, 2005.
'Style' Section Politics.  March 31, 2005.
Midsize Man.  March 28, 2005.
The Faith of a Critic.  March 6, 2005.
Showing That You Care.  February 28, 2005.
Screening the Iraq War.  February 18, 2005.
The Inexhaustible Adaptability of Jane Austen.  February 11, 2005.
Is it time to pay attention to Oscar?.  January 26, 2005.
Oh Yeah? Says Who?.  January 14, 2005.
Cutting Moral Corners.  December 31, 2004.
Outraged Intellectuals.  November 30, 2004.
Hoosier Heathen.  November 30, 2004.
Rhetorical Recklessness.  October 31, 2004.
Suffering Kerry.  October 31, 2004.
The Daily Dodge.  October 22, 2004.
Smug Self-righteousness.  September 30, 2004.
The Summer of their Discontent.  September 29, 2004.
Movie Memories.  September 9, 2004.
Weapons of Mass Distortion.  September 2, 2004.
Husbands and Wives.  August 31, 2004.
The Sense of an Ending.  August 23, 2004.
Not Made Up But Unmade.  June 30, 2004.
Obligations to "Spin".  May 31, 2004.
Virgin Flight.  May 31, 2004.
Contemplating Homer, Tony, Buffy, George. . ..  May 28, 2004.
“Root-causeism” and electability.  April 30, 2004.
Why Not be Anti-Semiotic?.  April 30, 2004.
Post-Cold War Propaganda.  March 31, 2004.
Bad Faith, Common Currency.  March 31, 2004.
Unisex at the Multiplex.  February 29, 2004.
Beast-Man Politics.  February 29, 2004.
The Mountains of Instead.  January 31, 2004.
A Sharp Eye and a Sharp Tongue.  January 15, 2004.
My Top Ten Movies of 2003.  January 5, 2004.
The Story the Media Missed.  December 31, 2003.
Pulp Garbage.  November 30, 2003.
The Culture of Mistrust.  November 30, 2003.
The Wages of Spin.  October 31, 2003.
Adult Movies.  October 31, 2003.
Scandalous scandal-culture.  September 23, 2003.
Murder Most Foul.  August 8, 2003.
Breaking the Code.  July 31, 2003.
Spurious Objectivity.  July 21, 2003.
Superior to the Truth.  May 15, 2003.
Rather Not.  April 15, 2003.
Contending With Tragedy, Angling for Dollars.  April 1, 2003.
Himalayan Self-Righteousness.  March 14, 2003.
Confidence Motion.  February 19, 2003.
"Media Bias" Revisited.  January 15, 2003.
The Death of Criticism.  January 7, 2003.
My Top Ten of 2002.  January 3, 2003.
. . .The Second Time as Farce.  January 1, 2003.
Shooting for Literary Immortality.  December 10, 2002.
The Scandal Lobby.  November 12, 2002.
Remembering the So Few.  November 11, 2002.
Life of the Parody.  October 11, 2002.
Debating Iraq.  October 4, 2002.
The Aristocracy of Feelings.  September 9, 2002.
The Historian as Futurologist.  September 9, 2002.
Be Yourself, Get Into College.  September 6, 2002.
Teaching the Gorillas.  August 10, 2002.
Taking Ourselves Seriously.  June 4, 2002.
Objectively Helpful.  May 1, 2002.
Home Truths.  April 26, 2002.
The Day the Music Died.  April 22, 2002.
The Paranoid Style in American Journalism.  April 1, 2002.
American Journalism Not In Peril Enough.  March 27, 2002.
He's a Rebel.  March 26, 2002.
George Bush as Strewwelpeter.  March 15, 2002.
We're Taking a Poll on How Bright You Are. . ..  March 6, 2002.
Burn, Bernie, Burn.  February 1, 2002.
Second Thoughts on Women’s Suffrage.  January 7, 2002.
After the Terrorists, the Worryists.  November 15, 2001.
The Warden of English.  November 7, 2001.
The Language of Catastrophe .  October 29, 2001.
Towers of Intellect.  October 5, 2001.
Bring Back the Duel.  October 1, 2001.
Chandrology.  September 1, 2001.
The Graduates.  May 17, 1999.
Another tome of Oxfordian balderdash about the Bard.  June 22, 1997.
 
 
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