Essays on Politics and Culture in English
Censored Long Essay: “Manufactured Forgetting and the Crisis of Contemporary U.S. Culture” Staging 21st-Century American Crises Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Universitat de València (Valencia, Spain 9 March 2017) <https://www.academia.edu/42261437/Manufactured_Forgetting_and_the_Crisis_of_Contemporary_U.S._Culture>
This paper is a semi-auto-biographical reflection upon the decline of memory—both institutionally and as a social value in American culture—and the deleterious effects this decline has had on civic life in the country. It was supposed to be published as the concluding essay of two-volume "21st-century American Crises: Reflections, Representations, Transformations" in Studies in the Literary Imagination (Volume 50, nos. 1 and 2), a journal sponsored by Georgia State University. From the beginning, the editors of the collection made clear their intention of including this essay as the final coda of the collection. And it was, to my knowledge, with this intention clearly stated and demonstrated in working manuscripts, that the peer-reviewers accepted the two-volume collection for publication. Indeed, in the introduction to the first volume, my name and this essay are fairly prominently discussed. However, when it came time to print the second volume of the collection I received a message from the editors saying that the press had absolutely refused to publish the second installment of the collection with my essay in it. Who could have dreamed that the people at Studies in the Literary Imagination and/or Georgia State University would have been capable of providing such a graphic example of the fear-based, small-mindedness that I discuss in the piece. Enjoy!
Complete Listing of English-Language Essays on Politics and Culture (most recent first)
“Proxy ‘Evidence’ and the Manipulation of Human Perceptions” Brownstone Institute 1 August 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/proxy-evidence-and-the-manipulation-of-human-perceptions/
“Why Do We Adore Dogs and Despise People?” Brownstone Institute 25 July 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/why-do-we-adore-dogs-and-despise-people/
“How Many Among Us are Suckers?” Brownstone Institute 6 July 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/how-many-among-us-are-suckers/
“The Eric Adams Cure for Non-Compliance: Compliance” Brownstone Institute 25 June 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-eric-adams-cure-for-non-compliance-compliance/
“Bill Gates and the Frame Game” ” Brownstone Institute 16 June 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/bill-gates-and-the-frame-game/
“Stigmatize, Surround, and Stomp” Brownstone Institute 13 June 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/stigmatize-surround-and-stomp/
“The Milgram Experiment Restaged, with Millions of Real Victims” Brownstone Institute 9 June 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-milgram-experiment-restaged-with-millions-of-real-victims/
“The Unbearably Predictable Prattle of the Boston Globe” Brownstone Institute 6 June 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-unbearably-predictable-prattle-of-the-boston-globe/
“A Helpless People, Weary and Traumatized” Brownstone Institute 4 June 2022https://brownstone.org/articles/a-helplessness-people-weary-and-traumatized/
“The Brutal Politics of Branding” The Brownstone Institute 23 March 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-brutal-politics-of-branding/
“The Fact-Checking Game” The Brownstone Institute 21 March 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-fact-checking-game/
“Drs. Walensky and Offit: It’s All in Good Fun” The Brownstone Institute 10 March 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/drs-walensky-and-offit-its-all-in-good-fun/
“Time for Honesty about Diminishment and Death” The Brownstone Institute 8 March 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/time-for-honesty-about-diminishment-and-death/
“Digital Brownshirts and Their Masters” The Brownstone Institute 3 March 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/digital-brownshirts-and-their-masters/
“This Is No Time for Victory Laps” The Brownstone Institute 28 February 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/this-is-no-time-for-victory-laps/
“A Priori Science In the Service of Power” The Brownstone Institute 24 February 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/a-priori-science-in-the-service-of-power/
“The Conscious Cultivation of Ignorance” The Brownstone Institute 17 February 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-conscious-cultivation-of-ignorance/
“What an Honest Vaccine Rollout Announcement Might Have Looked Like” The Brownstone Institute 9 February 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/what-an-honest-vaccine-rollout-announcement-might-have-looked-like/
“The Limited Hangout of the Mandaters” The Brownstone Institute 8 February 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-limited-hangout-of-the-mandaters/>
“It Was All There in the EUA. Why Couldn’t They See it?” The Brownstone Institute 29 January 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/it-was-all-there-in-the-eua-why-couldnt-they-see-it/
No One Could Have Known? The Brownstone Institute 14 January 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/no-one-could-have-known/
“Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives” The Brownstone Institute 5 January 2022 https://brownstone.org/articles/deep-inside-our-heads-and-our-communal-lives/
“A Note to My well-Credentialed Friends” The Brownstone Institute 17 December 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/a-note-to-my-well-credentialed-friends/
“The Full Secularization of the Doctrine of Original Sin” The Brownstone Institute 6 December 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-full-secularization-of-the-doctrine-of-original-sin/
“The Merchants of Moral Panic” The Brownstone Institute 23 November 3021 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-merchants-of-moral-panic/
“Vaclav Havel and the Semiotics of Public Masking” The Brownstone Institute 16 November 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/vaclav-havel-and-the-semiotics-of-public-masking/
What It Means to Experience “Social Death” The Brownstone Institute 10 November 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/what-it-means-to-experience-social-death/
“The Treason of the Healers” The Brownstone Institute 26 October 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-treason-of-the-healers/
“The Frightened Class” The Brownstone Institute 19 October 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/the-frightened-class/
“The EU Loves to Go After Poland & Hungary on Culture War Issues, Not So After Spain Over Fundamental Rights Violations” Anti-Empire 12 October 2021 < https://anti-empire.com/the-eu-loves-to-go-after-poland-hungary-on-culture-war-issues-not-so-after-spain-over-fundamental-rights-violations/?
“The EU, a Lion with Poland and Hungary on Social Issues, Is a Lamb When it Comes Spain’s Violations of More Fundamental Rights” Antiwar.com 11 October 2021 https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/10/11/the-eu-a-lion-with-poland-and-hungary-on-social-issues-is-a-lamb-when-it-comes-spains-violations-of-more-fundamental-rights/
“Contrived Spectacles of Protecting and Caring for the People” The Brownstone Institute 6 October 2021 https://brownstone.org/articles/contrived-spectacles-of-protecting-and-caring-for-the-people/“You are Damaged and Only We Can Repair You” Off-Guardian 12 April 2021 https://off-guardian.org/2021/04/12/you-are-damaged-and-only-we-can-repair-you/
“The Rights of the Naturally Immune” American Institute for Economic Research 9 March 2021 https://www.aier.org/article/the-rights-of-the-naturally-immune
“Hysteria is a Force that Gives Us Meaning” ColdType 220 (Early March 2021) 49-50 http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType220.March2021.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_march_coldtype_issue_220_is_now_online&utm_term=2021-03-04
“Was I Just Witness to a Covid Death?” Lockdown Sceptics 12 January 2021 https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/01/12/latest-news-252/#was-i-just-witness-to-a-covid-death
“The Covid Horrors: A Love Story” ColdType 218 (Early January 2021) 11 http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType218.January2021.pdf
“If Rationality ever Returns…” ColdType 216 (Mid-November 2020) 13 http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType216.Mid-Nov2020.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reminder_the_mid_november_coldtype_issue_216_is_now_online&utm_term=2020-11-28
“Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People” Off-Guardian 12 September 2020 https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/12/contrived-spectacles-of-protecting-and-caring-for-the-people/
“Ready for the ‘No One Could Have Known’ Routine?” Off-Guardian 22 August 2020 https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/22/are-you-ready-for-the-no-one-could-have-known-routine/
‘New Corona Cases’: A Phrase that Tells Us Little if Anything About the Actual Levels of Danger We Face” Counterpunch 3 July 2020. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/new-corona-cases-a-phrase-thats-tells-us-very-little-if-anything-about-the-actual-levels-of-danger-we-face/
“A Nation’s Descent into Bathos” ColdType 208 (Late June edition) 51 http://www.coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType208.MidJune2020.pdf
“Technocrats and authoritarianism” ColdType 207 (Early June edition) 10-11 http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType207.June2020.pdf
“Let’s Pretend” Counterpunch 8 May 2020 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/08/lets-pretend/>
“It’s Time We Challenged the Impunity of Experts” ColdType 205 (Early May Edition) 8-10< http://coldtype.net/Assets20/PDFs/ColdType205a.May2020.pdf
“Cheney’s ‘One Percent Doctrine’ Comes the Field of Public Health” Antiwar.com 20 April 2020< https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2020/04/19/cheneys-one-percent-doctrine-comes-the-field-of-public-health/>
“When Consumerism Locks Death and Diminishment Away in the Back Room” Counterpunch 17 April 2020. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/17/when-consumerism-locks-death-and-diminishment-away-in-the-back-room/
“Technocrats and Authoritarianism” Counterpunch 16 April 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/16/technocrats-and-authoritarianism/
“Technocrats and Authoritarianism” Antiwar.com 15 April 2020 https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2020/04/14/technocrats-and-authoritarianism/
“The American Funhouse” Counterpunch 10 April 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/10/the-american-funhouse/
“New Corona Cases”: the Ultimate Floating Signifier” Counterpunch 3 April 2020 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/new-corona-cases-the-ultimate-floating-signifier/
“Misled About Their Wars: Why Americans Sign on to Nihilistic Pursuits With Such Obedient Ease” Alternet 12 December 2020 https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/americans-misled-about-their-wars-why-americans-sign-on-to-nihilistic-pursuits-of-this-sort-with-such-obedient-ease/
“Let’s Give Three Cheers for Those Western Ears” Counterpunch 20 November 2019 https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/20/lets-give-three-cheers-for-those-western-ears/
“Hong Kong Their Head-Bashers….and ‘Ours’”. Counterpunch 27 August 2019. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/27/hong-kong-their-head-bashers-and-ours/
“Informational Eugenics” Cold Type 175 (Late January 2019) 6-7 http://coldtype.net/Assets19/pdf/ColdType176.MidJan2019.pdf
“The McCain Goodbye: The American Baroque at Fever Pitch” Counterpunch 7 September 2018 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/06/the-mccain-goodbye-the-american-baroque-at-fever-pitch/>
“So Glad the Grown-Ups Are Back in Charge in Argentina” Counterpunch 5 September 2018. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/05/so-glad-the-grown-ups-are-back-in-charge-in-argentina/
“Poland Takes Charge of its Own History” Cold Type 154 (Late February 2018 issue) pp. 8-9< http://www.coldtype.net/Assets18/pdf/CT154MidFeb2018.pdf>
“Poli-Sci and the Propagation of ‘Promontory Views’ of Reality” Counterpunch 30 January 2018< https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/30/poli-sci-and-the-propagation-of-promontory-views-of-reality/>
“Tim O’Brien and Me: How Literature Works and Why it is Irreplaceable” Counterpunch (Print Edition) Volume 24-5 (October 2017) 35
“The Low-Rent Bullying of the Zionist Ideologue” Cold Type 147 (Late October issue) 42-43 http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.17/PDF/CT147.MidOctober2017.pdf
“The Low-Rent Bullying of the Zionist Ideologue” Mondoweiss 12 October 2017. http://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/bullying-zionist-ideologue/
“Whorehouse-on-the-Charles” Counterpunch 15 September 2017 < https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/15/the-whorehouse-on-the-charles/>
“Such a Surprise in the UK!” Counterpunch 12 June 2017 https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/12/such-a-surprise-in-the-uk/
“The Relentless Pulse of Pro-Israeli Propaganda in our Lives” Counterpunch 9 June 2017. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/09/the-relentless-pulse-of-pro-israel-propaganda-in-our-lives/
“Muslims are Very Strange People” Counterpunch 7 June 2017 https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/07/muslims-are-very-strange-people/
“Risk: A Sad Comedown for Laura Poitras” Counterpunch 23 May 2017https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/23/risk-a-sad-comedown-for-laura-poitras/
“The Truth Behind the Warrior Myth” ColdType 140 (Late May Issue) pp. 43-44 https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/ct140.midmay2017
“I may be nuts, but at least I’m awake” ColdType 139 (Early May Issue) pp. 44-45http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.17
“Obama, the Swaggering Castrato” ColdType 135 (Early-March Issue) 43 < http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.17/PDF/CT135.March2017.pdf>
“The Willful Ignorance of Mainstream Liberalism” ColdType 133 (Early-February 2017 issue) p 26-29. http://coldtype.net/Assets.17/PDF/CT133.February2017.pdf
“NPR Publishes an Annotated Version of Trump’s Inaugural Speech” Antiwar.com 24 January 2017 < http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2017/01/23/npr-publishes-and-annotated-version-of-trumps-inaugural-speech/>
“Poor Little American Lambs” ColdType 132 (Late-January 2017 issue) 3-6 < http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.17/PDF/CT132.MidJan2017.pdf>
“Putin and I” ColdType 131 (Early January 2017 issue) 51. < http://www.coldtype.net/Assets.17/PDF/CT131.Jan2017.pdf>
“Burning Down the House: On Democracy and the Post-Trump Democrats” Common Dreams 15 December 2016 < http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/15/burning-down-house-democracy-and-post-trump-democrats>
“Strange Words Indeed” ColdType 130 (Late December 2016 Issue), 38-39 <http://coldtype.net/assets.16/pdf/CT130.MidDec2016.pdf>
“The Normalizer-in-Chief” Common Dreams 15 November 2016 < http://commondreams.org/views/2016/11/15/normalizer-chief>
“An Open Letter to American Liberals” Cold Type Issue 128 (Mid-November 2016 issue) p.17<http://coldtype.net/assets.16/pdf/CT128.MidNov2016.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=coldtype_issue_128_mid_november_2016&utm_term=2016-11-15>
“I Would Love to Share in Your Incredulity” Common Dreams 10 November 2016 < http://commondreams.org/views/2016/11/10/i-would-love-share-your-incredulity>
“Colin Kaepernick and the death of American Democracy” Counterpunch 7 September 2016 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/07/colin-kaepernick-and-the-death-of-american-democracy/
“The Frog Is No Longer Boiling, It's Dead” Common Dreams 5 September 2016 http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/03/frog-no-longer-boiling-its-dead
“Democracy’ and ‘Terrorism’ and the Parameters of Thinkable Thought” Mondoweiss 25 August 2016 < http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/democracy-terrorism-parameters/>
“Casuistry” Counterpunch 19 August 2016http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/19/casuistry/\\
“The breathtaking arrogance of Alan Dershowitz’s ‘advice’ to Black Lives Matter”. Mondoweiss 17 August 2016 < http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/breathtaking-arrogance-dershowitzs/>
“Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Advice’ to Black Lives Matter” Counterpunch 16 August 2016 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/16/alan-dershowitzs-advice-to-black-lives-matter
“Europe’s ‘Bought Journalists’” Counterpunch 2 August 2016 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/02/europes-bought-journalists/
“Imperial Math: Counting the Dead” Counterpunch 25 March 2016 < http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/imperial-math-counting-the-dead/>
“Zionism’s long and rich history of delegitimizing Palestinians” Mondoweiss 17 March 2016 < http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/zionisms-long-and-rich-history-of-delegitimizing-palestinians/>
“Zionism and Campaigns of Delegitimization: A Rich History Indeed” Counterpunch 17 March 2016. < http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/16/zionism-and-campaigns-of-delegitimization-a-very-rich-history-indeed/>
“The Sad Spectacle of the Whining Don: the Thug-in-Chief Throws his Vassals Under the Bus” Counterpunch 15 March 2016 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/15/the-sad-spectacle-of-the-whining-don-the-thug-in-chief-throws-his-vassals-under-the-bus/
“Are US Relations With Israel a Proprietary Matter? The People at PBS’ Frontline Seem to Think So” Counterpunch 13 January 2016. < http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/13/are-us-relations-with-israel-a-proprietary-matter-the-people-at-pbs-frontline-seem-to-think-so/>
“The New “De-Rad” Meme, or the Pathologization of Predictable and Readily Comprehensible Political Sentiments” Counterpunch 4 January 2016 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/04/the-new-de-rad-meme-or-the-pathologization-of-predictable-and-readily-comprehensible-political-sentiments/
“Laughter, Forgetting and Cynicism in Paris: Kundera, Obama and the Climate Talks” Counterpunch 4 December, 2015. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/04/laughter-forgetting-and-cynicism-in-paris-kundera-obama-and-the-climate-talks/
“Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe and the Death of Ezra Schwartz” Counterpunch 27 November, 2015. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/27/jeff-jacoby-of-the-boston-globe-and-the-death-of-ezra-schwartz/
“Are We Really at War Against Islamic Extremism? Counterpunch 16 October 2015 http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/16/are-we-really-at-war-against-islamic-extremism/
“US Caught Faking It in Syria” Antiwar.com 12 October 2015 http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2015/10/11/the-problem-with-faking-it/
“US, Russia & Syria: The Problem With Faking It” Common Dreams 10 October 2015 < http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/10/us-russia-syria-problem-faking-it>
“I’m Surprised” Common Dreams 3 October 2015 http://www.commondreams.org/ views/2015/10/03/im-surprised
“Another US ‘Success Story': The Creation and Abandonment of Kosovo” Common Dreams 1 March 2015 www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/01/another-us-success-story-creation-and-abandonment-kosovo
“Another US ‘Success Story': The Creation and Abandonment of Kosovo” Antiwar.com 28 February 2015 < http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2015/02/27/another-us-success-story-the-creation-and-abandonment-of-kosovo/>
“Full Spectrum Dominance, the European Press and the Impending Demise of the EU” Antiwar.com 30 August 2014. http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2014/08/29/full-spectrum-dominance-the-european-press-and-the-impending-demise-of-the-eu/
“Full Spectrum Dominance: US Policy From Iraq to Ukraine” Common Dreams 29 August 2014. http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/29/full-spectrum-dominance-us-policy-iraq-ukraine
“Is Open-Ended Chaos the Desired US-Israeli Aim in the Middle East?” Counterpunch 17 June 2014. https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/17/is-open-ended-chaos-the-desired-us-israeli-aim-in-the-middle-east/
“The Composition of Kerry’s Negotiating Team in Israel-Palestine” Common Dreams 2 March 2014 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/02-1
“Defend the Constitution? Who, Me? Moral Abandonment in the Face of Power” Counterpunch 14-16 February 2014 http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/14/defend-the-constitution-who-me/
“Hypocrisy in Sochi: On Slamming Russian Repression, But Rarely Our Own” Common Dreams 13 February 2014 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/13-8
“Israel Has Been “Singled Out” in the US for a Very Long Time” Antiwar.com 29 December 2013 http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2013/12/29/israel-has-been-singled-out-in-the-us-for-a-very-long-time/
“Israel Has Been “Singled Out” in the US for a Very Long Time” Counterpunch 27-29 December 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/27/israel-has-been-singled-out-in-the-us-for-a-very-long-time/
“Israel Has Been “Singled Out” in the US for a Very Long Time” Common Dreams 25 December 2013 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/25-6
“Beating Stalin’s Corpse in Spain: The Lucrative Industry of Begging Forgiveness from Daddy” Counterpunch 15 August 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/15/beating-stalins-ghost-in-spain/
“The Truth or the Tribe?: The Trials of Hannah Arendt” Counterpunch 5-7 July 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/05/the-trials-of-hannah-arendt/
“Obama’s Dog Whistle Politics: Zelig at the Top of his Game” Counterpunch 19 April 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/19/obamas-dog-whistle-politics/
“Take Responsibility for My Vote and Its Policy Consequences? Hell No! That’s Only for Republicans and Other Lesser Beings” Counterpunch 4 January 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/04/take-responsibility-for-my-vote-and-its-policy-consequences/
“How Liberals Shirk Responsibility for Atrocious Policies” Common Dreams, 4 January 2013 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/04-8
“Recognizing the Importance of Goldwater: Learning to Analyze and Practice Progressive Politics in their Historical Dimension” Counterpunch 24 September 2012 http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/24/recognizing-the-importance-of-goldwater/
“If a Million People March for Catalan Independence in Barcelona, Do They Make Noise?” Common Dreams 23 September 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/23-1
“Recognizing the Importance of Goldwater, or Learning to Analyze and Practice Progressive Politics in their Historical Dimension” Common Dreams 22 September 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/22-1
“Catalonia’s Shouts for Freedom: If a Million People March for Catalan Independence in Barcelona, Do They Make Noise?” Counterpunch 17 September 2012 http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/17/catalonias-shouts-for-freedom/
“Aggressive Cluelessness: Then and Now” Common Dreams 24 July 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/24
“No, It Has not Always Been this Way” Common Dreams 5 June 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/05-3
“Being (or Not) ‘In the Place of the Soul’” Nation of Change 24 April 2012 http://www.nationofchange.org/being-or-not-place-soul-1335276007
“Customers or Citizens?” Nation of Change 21 March 2012 http://www.nationofchange.org/customers-or-citizens-1332343841
“ Customer or Citizens?” Counterpunch 20 March 2012 http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/20/customers-or-citizens/
“‘Mistakes Were Made’: One-Time Object of Derision Now a Core Template of Our Social Behaviors” Common Dreams 11 march 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/11-4
“If the Cords of Culture are Cut, How Will We Access the Potential Sources of Our Renewal?” Common Dreams 19 February 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/19-4
“A Better Question Might Be, 'How Is It NOT Fascism?' Common Dreams 25 January 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/25-11
“More Intellectual Dishonesty at the New York Times” Antiwar.com 19 January 2012 http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2012/01/18/more-intellectual-dishonesty-at-the-new-york-times/
“More Intellectual Dishonesty at the New York Times” Common Dreams 18 January 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/18-7
“Technocrats” Common Dreams 5 December 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/05-6
“Orthodoxies and Adolescents” ” Common Dreams 1 December 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/01-5
“Keeping US Safe”...From the Task of Engaging and Managing our Own Anxieties” Common Dreams 16 November 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/16-5
“Anger and Angry People” The Public Intellectuals Project 12 November 2011 http://publicintellectualsproject.mcmaster.ca/public-intellectuals/anger-and-angry-people/
“Anger and Angry People” Common Dreams 9 November 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/09-5
“Uniformed Impunity: We’re Probably Closer to the Beginning than to the End” Common Dreams 31 October 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/31-5
“One Thing You Can’t Hide…Is the Authoritarian Inside” Common Dreams 28 October 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/28-1
“Pre-emptive Strikes of the (Pseudo) Progressive Kind” Common Dreams 8 October 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/08
“Junk Food for the Mind” Common Dreams 25 September 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/25
“The Doctrine of ‘Reasonable Doubt’: Universal Principle or Perk of the Powerful?”. Common Dreams 30 August 2011. https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/30-7
“Learned Helplessness and the Imperial Mind”. Common Dreams 22 August 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/22-6
“Ballots and Democracy: Big Media Is Just Not That Into It” Common Dreams 16 August 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/16-7
“Tribalism Is Dead, Long Live the Tribe” Common Dreams 15 August 2011 https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/15-8
“The Partisanship Canard” Common Dreams 11 August 2011. https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/11-7
“When 'Everybody Has a Price' Who Will Stand Up to Injustice?”. Common Dreams 7 August 2011. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/07-2
“On Bumper Stickers That Say 'Coexist' (or Skipping the ‘Detail Work’ Needed for the Pursuit of Real Justice and Democracy)”. Common Dreams 22 July 2011. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/22-7
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