Mark Dunbar
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“America First” All over Again?
BEFORE STEVE BANNON was kicked out of the White House in the fall of 2017, he said he wanted the Trump presidency to be... Read More
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
BY JONATHAN METZL BASIC BOOKS, 2019 352 PP.; $32.00 Almost everyone will be familiar with the general thesis of Jonathan Metzl’s book, Dying of Whiteness:... Read More
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