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The politics of superheroes: want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie
ON APRIL 28, 200S, Spider-Man, Captain America, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flexed their muscles onstage at the Pentagon. The trio was...
Reason, 05/01/09 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
Psychedelic old time radio
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the late 1960s, a quartet called the Firesign Theater created a striking new species of comedy...
Reason, 04/01/09 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
In darkest Indianapolis: a poor midwestern family is demonized by eugenicists and glorified by radicals
IN 1888, a social reformer named Oscar McCulloch delivered a speech in Buffalo titled "The Tribe of Ishmael: A Study in Social Degradation."...
Reason, 03/01/09 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
Frontier greens
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1968 the first Whole Earth Catalog invoked the "power of the individual to conduct his own...
Reason, 02/01/09 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
Drunk without power
[Forgotten Founder: Drunken Prophet: The life of Luther Martin, Bill Kauffman, 151 Books, 189 pages] [Forgotten Founder: Drunken Prophet: The...
American Conservative, The, 12/01/08 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
What's the matter with libertarians? Thomas Frank blames the freedom movement for Jack Abramoff and George W. Bush
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, by Thomas Frank, New York: Metropolitan Books, 353 pages, $25 The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives...
Reason, 12/01/08 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
Beyond the fairness doctrine: Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC
FIRST THE GOOD NEWS: The fairness doctrine is still dead, and it probably will stay dead even if Barack Obama becomes president. The doctrine, a...
Reason, 11/01/08 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
The Great Recycler: the late Bruce Conner made lasting art out of junk
WHEN THE Wichita-bred filmmaker Bruce Conner moved to San Francisco in 1957, he was stimulated by the bohemian individualism of the Beat scene, by...
Reason, 10/01/08 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground
SINCE THE 1970S, an underground subculture has been making and privately screening short films. The artists are fans--and critics--of cult TV...
Reason, 08/01/08 by Jesse Walker · More from publication -
The age of Nixon: Rick Perlstein on the left, the right, the '60s, and the illusion of consensus
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In May 1970 the United States saw a wave of political demonstrations--demonstrations in favor of...
Reason, 07/01/08 by Jesse Walker · More from publication
