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Hoop Dreams
I would imagine very few people in our thing pay much attention to basketball because you people are terrible racists! I am kidding, of course, but of…
Apr 18
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Sunday Thoughts April 14, 2024
If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
Apr 14
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The Beginning Of The End
The death of O.J. Simpson produced the predictable commentary from the so-called right, mostly the kind of stuff everyone reading this now feels ashamed…
Apr 13
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Dr. Strangelove
Human communication relies about a vast set of shared assumptions about the world that are just assumed by speaker and receiver. When the speaker says…
Apr 10
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Sunday Thoughts April 07, 2024
If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
Apr 7
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Dream Land
An underappreciated aspect of managerialism is the power of narrative to supplant reality within the managerial elite. A story forms up about how things…
Apr 6
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Bonnie and Clyde
I have probably made this point many times when reviewing films on the AFI-100 list of greatest films, but some films are considered great despite not…
Apr 3
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March 2024
Blame Shifting
One of the strange aspects of managerialism, whether it is in government, politics, the private sector, or the academy, is that managers can reach a…
Mar 30
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The Machine Stops Generation
One of the weird things about doing what I do is I get requests for interviews, often from people completely unknown to me. I follow a half dozen or so…
Mar 27
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Sunday Thoughts March 24, 2024
If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.
Mar 24
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Thoughts On Film
Seen a good movie lately? If you take that to mean a good new release, then the answer is probably negative. The only recent release getting positive…
Mar 22
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Bad Ideas
Intellectual history is generally the study of good ideas or what we currently think are good ideas, but it is the bad ideas that have the most impact…
Mar 22
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