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“Celebrities do not exist without publics,” Sharon Marcus writes in her book The Drama of Celebrity, “but publics can and do exist without celebrities.”

“The consciousness that crated te problem cannot be the same consciousness that solved it.” Thus, as we watch the corporate Democratic Establishment wage war on Graham Platner, on David Hogg, on Zohran Mamdani, on anyone who would steer the party … Continue reading →

but Jessica Gigi’s “How to Judge a Book by its Lover” drew me in. It manages to construct stanchions of romance and its vagaries to support a tautly barbed satire of today’s publishing, literature, and media eosystems–as adroitly as Percival … Continue reading →

I’m sure he’ll return the favor.

Hunter Biden is providing a head-on, no-holds-barred refutation of the lies, defamation, and misinformation perpetuated by MAGA as well as by “journalists” like Jake Tapper.

Greg Sargent at The New Republic: “It seems to me Democrats don’t do this kind of hand-to-hand combat enough. They don’t make Republicans deny what’s true about them. They spend. . . their time denying Republican lies about them.” Lieu … Continue reading →

Jean Houston said in 2013: “Look, if you put art back as central to the curriculum, so that a child dances and sings and emotes and incarnates and becomes, and is really cooking on more burners, then a child is … Continue reading →

Dr. Biden’s theory about her husband’s debate showing is at least as credible as anything that transactional Tapper has tried to retail about Biden.

The developers have gone hog wild there destroying one essential cultural site after another in their frenzy to construct more and more luxury housing. The Landmarks “Preservation” Commission continues to simply look the other way. Save Harlem Now! was founded … Continue reading →

Authoritarianism spreads as Uygur* was not allowed to fulfill speaking engagements in Britain, which explicitly informed him that his criticism of Israel was costing him his visa and Hasan Piker. * and Hasan Piker