Feb 25, 2015 | Conservativism, Gender and Sexism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: Daily Dot (February 25, 2015) When yet another old white man nationally embarrasses himself with his ignorance about how women’s bodies work, it isn’t enough to hold them up for richly deserved derision, as the Internet is wont to do. We must also learn a very important lesson: namely, that their poor understanding of experiences outside their own frame-of-reference demonstrates why...
Feb 11, 2015 | Conservativism, Extremism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans, Terrorism
Published: Daily Dot (February 11, 2015) If there is one thing we can learn from the Christian Right’s continued response to President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, it is that religious prejudice isn’t limited to any specific religion. Ironically, the online effort by social conservatives to rebut Obama’s most controversial point—namely, that we “remember that during the Crusades and...
Jan 22, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Conservativism, Internet Culture, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues
Jan 11, 2015 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Conservativism, Foreign Policy, Immigration, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: MSNBC (January 11, 2015) Listening to Rep. Louis Gohmert’s (R-TX) revanchist logic for his failed bid to oust John Boehner as speaker of the House earlier this month, you’d think the tea party wing of the Republican Party had been working with President Obama. “[We’ll] fight amnesty tooth and nail. We’ll use the powers of the purse,” Gohmert vowed in an interview with Fox News during...
Jan 6, 2015 | Extremism, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Ideologies, Race and Racism
Dec 28, 2014 | Conservativism, mic, Political Ideologies, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: Good Men Project (December 28, 2014), The Daily Dot (December 30, 2014) The Interview has been getting a lot of sympathy but, from a critical standpoint, not a great deal of respect. After seeing the film twice, I find this attitude a tad dismaying. For those who haven’t seen the movie and wish to watch it with a fresh set of eyes, there are two things you should know: 1) At its core,...
Dec 25, 2014 | Conservativism, mic, Political Ideologies, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: Daily Dot (December 25, 2014) The nativity, whether on a church lawn or brazenly displayed at City Hall, is a fixture of American Christmases—as is, of course, controversy. While arguments over nativity scenes trend toward questions of the separation between church and state, nativity scenes gone wrong run the span from bizarre, to funny, to actively offensive. It's not a War on...
Dec 9, 2014 | Bullying, Conservativism, Internet Culture, Liberalism, mic, Political Ideologies
Published: Daily Dot (December 9, 2014) If you’ve logged onto the Internet recently, chances are you’re used to seeing progressives in the role of victim. In addition to its sexist undertones, Gamergate has largely been a right-wing movement, an explosion of cultural reactionary sentiment against feminist criticisms of female representation in video game content and culture. Even the derisive...
Dec 7, 2014 | Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), History, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: MSNBC (December 7, 2014) While he remains cryptic about his ultimate intentions, Jeb Bush has let America know that if he runs for president in 2016, he will do so by promising an administration that is “much more uplifting, much more positive, much more willing to be practical” – in short, the complete opposite of the status quo in Washington. It’s a pleasingly conciliatory narrative...
Nov 20, 2014 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Foreign Policy, History, Liberalism, mic, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties
Published: Daily Dot (November 20, 2014) As a progressive millennial who actively volunteered for and supported Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, I am ready to make public an opinion I’ve only expressed in private until now: In retrospect, I wish we’d nominated Hillary Clinton. This statement isn’t intended as a slight against Obama (who I actually ranked pretty highly...