Well, the day is finally here. It’s official publication day for my first book, The Cult of Smart. I don’t know how to feel. I’ve invested all of my hopes in this day for three ye… | Continue reading
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I apologize in advance for introducing this into your life, but consider this piece. Everything I’ve written about the media for the past 12 years has been true. If anything I was too easy on… | Continue reading
I know better, after all these years, to think that this evidence will end a misinformation campaign about my book – a misinformation campaign that began prior to my book’s composition.… | Continue reading
A few months ago I was unfortunate enough to find myself in a conversation about, somehow, judging someone for using a Walkman. (As in, the kind that plays audio tapes.) A guy I’m not very ac… | Continue reading
Suppose we take a group of children and decide to have a jumping competition. We are going to see how high they can jump and, to continue the analogy, we are going to make the stakes in this jumpin… | Continue reading
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“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. … | Continue reading
A common theme of the initial wave of reaction to my book (due out August 4th! | Continue reading
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I wrote something yesterday that got a lot of views, at least in the context of someone who has written for a small audience of RSS subscribers periodically for the last two years. This was by desi… | Continue reading
I am perpetually annoyed that we continue to have culture war battles out of habit long after they have ceased to mean anything. For example, the liberal insistence that the media or the academy do… | Continue reading
As I’ve written in the recent past, I believe that the current political uprising has a chance at being an enormously positive development. I worry though that it will be limited by the power… | Continue reading
As of today I’m not longer an employee of Brooklyn College or CUNY. I won’t get into the details other than to say that I had a Provost and an Associate Provost who both had my back, th… | Continue reading
I would say at a glance that the contemporary left is defined fundamentally by both a lack of meaningful power and a corresponding tightening of the grip on the meaningless power it does have. The … | Continue reading
I have added an addendum to my recent post on Jonathan Haidt and belief in belief, to underline the fact that I’m referring to a very specific way of thinking about religion and God. The adde… | Continue reading
Since I first started getting a little attention, as a blogger, I have had a reputation as a dissident leftist, that is, as someone who self-identifies with the left but who disagrees with a great … | Continue reading
Hello all, I have an adapted excerpt from my forthcoming book up at Medium. Check it out and please preorder if you haven’t. | Continue reading
People have been asking me if I have a Goodreads literally for over ten years, and the answer is finally yes. Feel free to friend or follow me or whatever here. Let’s get a little more of Ama… | Continue reading
I had to say goodbye to my beautiful boy Miles this weekend, after more than 13 years together. I don’t know much what to say other than that I loved him completely and will miss him forever.… | Continue reading
Hey friends, I’m happy to say that after a solid two weeks or so of illness I have felt near 100% the last two days. The fever is gone and the cough is now rare. I’m not sure if I had C… | Continue reading
I’m on day 6 of a persistent fever I can’t shake. It’s quite mild feeling – I have no idea what the temperature is because I don’t have a thermometer and I’m not… | Continue reading
You must socially distance yourself, and I am. It’s our duty in this moment. And it sucks, completely, but no one seems comfortable saying so. Look, I have always understood the utter necessi… | Continue reading
The first night I met Nick Tucci, I kissed him. One of my oldest and dearest friends, he died last week, of an illness, and I have been spending the last several days not processing, not even mourn… | Continue reading
I’ve written about this before, so maybe this is just part of the greatest hits. I don’t know. We are living in an era in which we have ostensibly seen improvements in the visibility of… | Continue reading
So things are a bit of a mess for me, which I suppose is disappointing given all of the doctors, drugs, therapists, meetings, and more. But whose life isn’t a mess? The news is that I’m… | Continue reading
One of the little benefits I get at work is a transit benefit. I get automatic deductions from my check that come out pre-tax, and those deductions then fund a monthly unlimited MTA card. It’… | Continue reading
For a variety of reasons, charter schools have long been the darlings of American news media’s discussions about education reform. For one thing, our media is disproportionately neoliberal and incl… | Continue reading
It may be going to far to say there’s a bipartisan consensus, but you certainly see many people from many political backgrounds saying that the solution to America’s housing crisis is m… | Continue reading
I have spent my life in two cultures and communities, academia and radical left politics. I have had as comrades democratic socialists and social democrats and Marxists and Leninists and Marxist Le… | Continue reading