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An Elusive Utopia By The Seanew

The traditional happening places for the arts in Los Angeles are two–and it’s been this way since the ’20s and earlier. One is Echo Park near downtown and the other is Venice by the sea. But Venice has captured more of the romance, perhaps because its history has been rich and porous enough there’s this terrible tendency to want to sum it all up, to say what exactly it means.
Random Lengths News  |  Lionel Rolfe  |  08-01-2013  |  Nonfiction

Busted: America's Right-wing Heroes Mything In Action

Greenwald explores how GOP mythmakers and a compliant, sometimes worshipful media combine to inflate all-too-human right-wing leaders into heroic cultural icons, following the model of pill-popping, draft-dodging adulterer John Wayne, while Democrats are demonized as weak and hapless losers, and substantive issues disappear from view.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  04-04-2008  |  Nonfiction

Worst President Ever: Here's Why

Greenwald's thesis, simply put, is that Bush's simplistic good vs. evil dualism is fundamentally at odds with America's political traditions.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  07-12-2007  |  Nonfiction

Don't Think of an Elephant — A Donkey Kicks Back

Conservatives have spent the last 40 years developing and promoting their own set of issue frames, frames that have become so powerful through endless repetition that they make it extremely difficult to effectively disagree, author Lakoff argues. Liberals end up saying, “Don’t think of an elephant!” because they haven’t devoted similar resources to developing their own set of frames.
Random Lengths News  |  Paul Rosenberg  |  09-10-2004  |  Nonfiction

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