Category: Culture

Inexplicable Verité: The Lessons of Trump’s Unknown First TV Project
by Hugh Taylor | May 3, 2022 | TelevisionIs it still acceptable to be fixated on Donald Trump’s iron grip on millions of Americans? While most people seem to have moved on, I’d argue that getting to a true understanding of his appeal is still of vital interest. Indeed, people’s lives may depend on it. Election officials continue to receive death threats for […]

Architecture of the Right: Ventures in Digital Media
by | Apr 28, 2022 | MediaIn the wake of Republican losses in 2020, a cast of mega-rich financiers, senior figures in the Trump administration, high-ranking NSA and Pentagon intelligence officials, Wall Street pitchmen and leading Trump campaign donors began to piece together a new global disinformation apparatus intended to promote the political project of the far right. The twin focal […]

Remembering Ramsey Clark
by Mark Green | May 1, 2021 | Culture, PoliticsRamsey Clark, former attorney general under Lyndon Baines Johnson and progressive civil rights attorney who ran twice for U.S. Senate from New York, died at 93 in his Manhattan home on April 9, 2021. Mark Green—on the staff of both the 1974 and 1976 campaigns—recalls the experience of trying to combine Clark’s principles with New […]

what if
by Claudia Rankine | Apr 29, 2021 | Culture, Racewhat if i What does it mean to want an age-old call for change not to change and yet, also, to feel bullied by the call to change? How is a call to change named shame, named penance, named chastisement? How does one say what if without reproach? The root of chastise is to […]

Addressing Biden and Harris, Reverend Barber Calls For a Third Reconstruction
by Reverend William J. Barber II | Mar 5, 2021 | Culture, RaceThe Reverend William Barber II, the civil rights leader who is considered the heir to Martin Luther King Jr., was asked by President Biden and Vice President Harris to deliver the homily at the Inaugural prayer breakfast, held at the National Cathedral on January 21. The following is the text of his sermon. Lord, […]
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Inexplicable Verité: The Lessons of Trump’s Unknown First TV Project
By Hugh Taylor
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Architecture of the Right: Ventures in Digital Media
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