Apr 6, 2015 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Internet Culture, mic
Published: Daily Dot (April 6, 2015) If Elizabeth Warren has her way on expanding Social Security, Americans might learn a valuable lesson—namely, that you can be a political game-changer without running for president. Perhaps more importantly, if supporters of Social Security expansion utilize the Internet to its fullest potential, they could fundamentally transform not only one of America’s...
Apr 2, 2015 | General Advice, Internet Culture, mic, Millennials
Published: Good Men Project (April 2, 2015), Daily Dot (April 6, 2015) Is it entitled for millennials to believe their opinions matter? Matthew Rozsa argues: No. ___ Writers tend to be argumentative creatures (it’s part of our opinionated personality type), and consequently some of my most memorable debates have been with other practitioners of my craft. Such was the case a couple months ago...
Feb 19, 2015 | Autobiographical, Gender and Sexism, Internet Culture, mic, Original Source Salon.com
Jan 22, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Conservativism, Internet Culture, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues
Jan 20, 2015 | General Advice, Internet Culture
Published: Good Men Project (January 20, 2015) Matthew Rozsa offers a set of rules to give us a kinder, gentler Internet. ___ My first experience with Internet flaming occurred more than a decade ago, when I was still an undergraduate at Bard College. The 2004 presidential election had just ended, and although I’d staunchly supported John Kerry (more on that in a moment), I’d openly disapproved...
Jan 8, 2015 | Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Other Media, President Obama
Jan 3, 2015 | Health & Wellness (Physical), Internet Culture, mic, Science and Technology
Published: Daily Dot (January 3, 2015) I don’t need to remind you about the so-called “epidemic” that reached America’s doorstep in 2014. From a ‘90s thriller to a Jesse Pinkman monologue, everyone knew about the dreaded Ebola virus before it reached our shores, but it wasn’t until last year that we became existentially afraid of it. The disease we should be actually scared of is the one that...
Jan 2, 2015 | Bullying, Internet Culture, Liskula Cohen
Published: GirlieGirlArmy (January 2, 2015) co-author: Liskula Cohen This is the story of how I reclaimed my life. Unfortunately, to tell that tale, I need to first explain how my struggle started. Back in 2009, right as the nation’s attention was beginning to turn to the problem of cyberbullying, I was the subject of defamatory attacks by a 29-year-old Fashion...
Dec 29, 2014 | Internet Culture, mic, Science and Technology
Published: Daily Dot (December 29, 2014) Back in October, a Fox News article on apocalyptic belief systems by Dr. Robert Jeffress observed that “47 percent of American Christians believe that the end of the world as described in the Bible will occur within the next 40 years.” Around the same time—but, notably, on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum—Roger Cohen of the New York Times...
Dec 18, 2014 | General Advice, Internet Culture, Liskula Cohen, Love and Dating, mic
Published: Good Men Project (December 18, 2014) co-author: Liskula Cohen Liskula Cohen and Matthew Rozsa look at how men succeed—and fail—with women in the world of online dating. ___ A few years ago, finding myself in a curious mood, I decided to create two dating profiles on the same site. They were mostly identical—both included information about my personality, likes and dislikes, ambitions,...