Cruel DeVos
Sean MurphyI. TRUE STORY. MY WIFE teaches grade school. In addition to the stories I can tell, and the ones my many friends who teach or are married to teachers can tell,…
The Power of Political Narrative: Part One, The GOP (Revisited)
LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE I know, I grew up—really grew up, if I’ve ever actually grown up—in the Reagan 80’s. Take my childhood, please. Actually, it wasn’t all that bad,…
The Power of Political Narrative: Part One, The GOP
i. Magical Thinking and the Memory Hole LIKE MOST EVERYONE ELSE I know, I grew up—really grew up, if I’ve ever actually grown up—in the Reagan 80’s. Take my childhood,…
The Power of Magical Thinking: Reflections on Reagan
Part One: Fact The fortieth president turns 100 and a religious cult (also known as the Republican Party) can't name buildings after him quickly enough. Is there room for Reagan…
The Reagan Revolution, Redux
No way I was going to soil the remembrance of Bob Marley by noting that another well-known figure happened to share a birthday yesterday. But in an almost perfect…
The Money Dread, Redux
Huge props to Slate's Stephen Metcalf for nailing the empty enigma that is Tom Cruise as well as the enigmatic emptiness of the '80s, all in one piece, here. It…