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 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 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
Fascinating Blog The Parallels of Polarized Discourse What if the medium is the message is the zietgiest? There may be no odder…BenjaminDecember 3, 2015
Fascinating Blog Will the “real” Rebecca Solnit please confirm that she is not an enemy of Humanity? Sometimes the more evidence there is, the more difficult it can be to evaluate someone…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015
Fascinating Blog What we don’t know about Demon Camp can haunt us There’s no sight in nature more beautiful to me than the dance of epistemologies, but…BenjaminJuly 24, 2015