Fascinating BlogFiction A story about fear A young woman who had moved to the city and learned the art of sculpting…BenjaminNovember 15, 2016
Fascinating Blog The “Attention Singularity” and cultural psychosis Have you ever wondered what a culture's collective psychosis feels like? I think this is…BenjaminMay 19, 2016
Fascinating Blog To cook free will, first heat your biography to 400 degrees Groggy in bed this morning, I discovered I was having some kind of conversation with…BenjaminMay 15, 2016
Fascinating Blog Why are young progressives so angry at Hillary Clinton? (This article originally appeared in the Canandaigua Daily Messenger) Let's talk about Hillary Clinton. It’s…BenjaminFebruary 23, 2016
Fascinating Blog A note to my internet friends who say police are evil This is written in response to a group of young (and less young) progressive types…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2016
Fascinating Blog It’s not so much “identity theft” as “authenticity theft” Many years ago while visiting Texas during an election season, I caught a lot of…BenjaminJanuary 13, 2016
Fascinating Blog The rise of Ms. Marvel and the fall of Spider-Man: superhero Comic Books are at once egalitarian and fascist An essay in the New York Times about Comic Books and identity issues raises a…BenjaminDecember 27, 2015
Fascinating Blog Education in the technocratic age (notes from Voltaire’s Bastards) Through a strange set of circumstances involving Chicken John Rinaldi - and are there ever…BenjaminDecember 25, 2015
Fascinating Blog What’s the matter with Poland? (And everywhere else …) While the Republican Presidential Nomination is the obvious car wreck to watch, I find myself…BenjaminDecember 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog A bad Star Wars movie would have been better than a pointless one Much in the way that the second Star Wars trilogy made the original worse, the…BenjaminDecember 22, 2015