One Red State One Red State
A friend of mine from South Carolina sent me the most astonishing article on his home state from yesterday's USA Today. Reporter Ron Barnett examines the quixotic quest of Cory Bur...
Feb 23, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Victor Navasky is Dangerous Victor Navasky is Dangerous
Larry Summers resigned. Alan Dershowitz called it an "academic coup d'etat" engineered by the "radical, hard-left element" at Harvard. He worried the PC-cops wo...
Feb 22, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Birdshot = WMD? Birdshot = WMD?
For Bill Clinton it was a stain on a blue GAP dress; might Cheney's Waterloo be an errant spray of birdshot? The way the normally dormant Washington press corps has seized upon thi...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
The Sacred and the Profane The Sacred and the Profane
Christine's last post on the American Family Association's successful scuttling of "anti-Christian" television programming makes an interesting counterpoint to much of th...
Feb 8, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Nipplegate’s Legacy Nipplegate’s Legacy
Though it has only been two years since it made its live debut on national television, Janet Jackson's right nipple has already left an indelible mark on American society. Many tho...
Feb 5, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Freedom’s Imperial March Freedom’s Imperial March
The left-liberal blogosphere has been in hyper-drive critiquing Bush's SOTU address since last night. As I'm teaching a class on US empire, I couldn't resist having my students rea...
Feb 2, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Screen Actors Homophobic! Screen Actors Homophobic!
I'm surprised the shrews at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation haven't come out with a press release denouncing the Screen Actors Guild as anti-gay since at last night...
Jan 30, 2006 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Pop Torture Pop Torture
Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help foil bombs seconds before detonation.
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
In Defense of Pat Robertson In Defense of Pat Robertson
The wacky televangelist may have done us a favor by bringing the insanity of Bush Administration tactics into plain view.
Aug 26, 2005 / Feature / Richard Kim
Witnesses to an Execution Witnesses to an Execution
An international furor over the hanging of "two gay teenagers" in Iran.
Aug 7, 2005 / Feature / Richard Kim