I’ve always harbored a nagging suspicion that “Seinfeld” was never really about nothing — that beneath its deadpan humor and insistence on moral vacancy, it was, in fact, a deeply moral act of parody –... Read More

It is typical to treat ignorance as a moral liability in that one can either be culpable for their ignorance, or their ignorance can mitigate blame. In either case, ignorance is to be excused, managed... Read More

I’ve been watching stories about serial killers for years. Not because I’m fascinated by blood, but because I’ve always wondered what could awaken such darkness inside a person. I even have an encyclopedia of serial... Read More

The Threshold of Crime There is a line between what is legal and what is right, and history tells us that line moves. There was a time when tossing tea into the harbor was an... Read More

The United States is in a new era of hysteria — one not driven by the lingering spectre of Soviet-era communism, as in the 1950s, but by the targeting of sex, gender and so-called “radical... Read More

Across history, every society has faced the same temptation — to surrender the complexity of freedom for the simplicity of certainty. Today, that temptation reemerges in the growing alliance of religious nationalism and political power... Read More

Coming out is overrated. The concept. The expectation. It reeks of compulsory heteronormativity and I don’t like it one bit. For the uninitiated, compulsory heteronormativity (or “comphet”) is a term coined by Adrienne Rich to... Read More