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The lead article is a double length one on Samuel Johnson as a maladroit individual. The second article is a review of Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". The third article (not inspired by Chabon, in that it was composed ten years ago) is an alternative history that follows upon a partial Hitler victory. It shows, as alternative histories tend to do, perhaps because they can do no other, given that their authors always live in actual history, how the actual present and the imagined future are woven together and perhaps even converge. The last article, by Arnold Birenbaum, is about the rhetoric of the unfolding health care debate.
The purpose of this e-journal is to use in tandem the techniques of literary criticism and social structural analysis to illuminate American politics and the various institutions in American society and sometimes matters more global, like religion or war, by turning an eye on the events and objects and performances that are considered art and entertainment, those defined broadly enough to include whatever is covered in newspapers and other media. Another concern is to pick up the texture of social life, both in the United States and in general, through the analysis of those events, objects and performances that are to be found in everyday life. |
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The Political Ticker
Republican Meanness
- September 6, 2010
The Mosque
- August 21, 2010
Afghanistan, At The Moment
- July 1, 2010
Madison's No. 46
- June 21, 2010
Tea Party Populism
- June 20, 2010
Tony Hayward in the Dock
- June 18, 2010
Previous Political Tickers
P. S. to "Obama's Gulf"
-June 16, 2010
Obama's Gulf
-June 15, 2010
Breaking News: Gulf Spill and Palestine Flotilla
-May 31, 2010
Obama's Katrina
-May 28, 2010
Elena Kagan
-May 11, 2010
Oil and Immigration
-May 5, 2010
Bishop Tutu and the Tea Party
-May 3, 2010
The Unappreciated Obama
-March 29, 2010
After Health Care Reform
-March 23, 2010
What is Khalid Sheik Mohammed?
-March 7, 2010
The Blair House Summit
-February 26, 2010
The Coakley Debacle
-January 21, 2010
What Obama Should Have Said
-January 8, 2010
Obama's Transparancy
-October 28, 2009
The Finance Committee Health Bill
-October 16, 2009
Health Care Reform So Far
-July 28, 2009
As to Louis Gates, Jr.
-July 25, 2009
The Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
-July 16, 2009
Health Policy Politics
-June 15, 2009
Why Obama Chose Sotomayor
-May 27, 2009
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The Cultural Ticker
The Arrogant Church
- May 1, 2010
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
- April 25, 2010
"The Pacific"
- April 7, 2010
Bees
- March 26, 2010
"The Hurt Locker" and "Precious"
- March 17, 2010
The Academy Awards, 2010
- March 10, 2010
Previous Cultural Tickers
Jane Austen
-February 28, 2010
Headline News Journalism
-February 1, 2010
Haitan Religion
-January 25, 2010
A Bus Trip
-January 23, 2010
A Conversation with a Cab Driver
-December 1, 2009
A Kitty Genovese Experience
-November 13, 2009
Five Hundred Years From Now
-August 26, 2009
Zucker on Michael Jackson
-July 15, 2009
Michael Jackson and Popular Culture
-July 8, 2009
Abortion as a Life Style Decison
-June 16, 2009
"Holocaust" as in "Museum"
-June 11, 2009
The New Yorker and Susan Boyle
-June 2, 2009
Betty Page Was No Hero
-March 26, 2009
Zimmerman
-March 4, 2009
The 2009 Oscars
-February 23, 2009
"The Reader": The Movie
-February 17, 2009
The Obama Inauguration Moment
-January 21, 2009
Rosie's Variety Show
-December 16, 2008
The Enormity of Obama's Election
-November 13, 2008
The Profession of Business
-October 25, 2008
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published once every three weeks or so. It is edited, owned, and where not indicated as otherwise,
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