Media

Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.

We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …

Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.

The spectacle of terror and fear has developed a singular focus of communication and control.

We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …

Among things that TV did indeed change, Calvino suggests, is the way we view our leaders.

Angry, stupid and armed can turn out to be a pretty ridiculous combination.

The reduction of politics today to the simple matter of ensuring that blowhards can utter stupid things is truly pervasive.

Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world.

The real tragedy of Tiger Woods's career is that all he really modeled for young people and the larger public was the shallow notion that talent and fame can …