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Bullying and the MPAA

Folks, I've got a piece in Salon today about the MPAA's decision to give an R rating to a documentary about teenage bullying because of the language used by the bullies. “I believe we’re at a tipping point moment when...

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Jim James on Guthrie

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Lone Star of David

It was published here, but here's the original version. Shortly before leaving his native Tennessee, Davy Crockett--Texas’s most venerated adopted son--famously told fellow statesmen, “You may all go to hell, I will go to Texas.” Crockett’s departure for Texas in...

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Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

My latest piece for The Atlantic just went up and I am pretty thrilled about it. The thrust of it is a looking-back at Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as the film turns 40. I had the good fortune of being...

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