Mark Dunbar
Mark Dunbar is a freelance writer based in Indianapolis. He can be reached by email at mark.dunbar1988@gmail.com or on Twitter @Mark1Dunbar.
Posts by Mark Dunbar
Sorry, It’s Hard: Forgiveness in the #MeToo Era
Forgiveness as a social grace has been much discussed lately. With the #MeToo movement, men have worried what they could do, if anything, to... Read More
America: The Farewell Tour
BY CHRIS HEDGES SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018 400 PP.; $27.00 For better or worse, you know what you’re going to get with a Chris... Read More
If Social Media Is Making Us Worse, Can We Make It Better?
SOCIAL MEDIA IS BAD. It takes your worst parts—your vanity, your ignorance, your credulity—and makes them even worse. It weakens your ability to focus.... Read More
Film Review: 22 July
Seven years ago—on July 22, 2011—Anders Behring Brevik ignited a car bomb in front of a government building in Oslo, Norway. He then traveled... Read More
Exorcising the Ghosts of the Sixties
"I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND how anybody could rebel against a system so clearly benign." That authorial “I” was John Updike in his self-deluding memoir,... Read More
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
BY STEPHEN GREENBLATT W. NORTAON & COMPANY, 2018 224 PP.; $21.95 Stephen Greenblatt’s latest, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, is about the tyrannical characters in... Read More
Film Review: First Reformed
How many sins can a person commit in the name of a righteous cause before the sins outweigh the cause? This is the central... Read More