Who elected Larry King America’s grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous…
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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil,…
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James Wolcott (born December 10, 1952) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the…
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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop…
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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop…
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As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a ‘Star Trek’ future…
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of…
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. James Wolcott
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High expectations weren’t nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children weren’t fawned over from an early age…
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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power…
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