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Author: Matt Hanson

Columns

Lost in Boston
April 03, 2018
On the fiftieth anniversary of Astral Weeks: we're a long way from Boston's music scene in 1968.

Festung High School
March 27, 2018
Trump's “hardening” of schools in the wake of recent shootings is a reversion to the bunker mentality of the nuclear age.

No Mothers, No Daughters
March 27, 2018
Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

What in God’s Name Happened to Ricky Gervais?
March 22, 2018
Somewhere over the last decade, Ricky Gervais lost it. His nosedive is fairly puzzling: in just a few years, the man who inaugurated a new era of TV with The Office went from one of the most original voices in comedy to a complete gasbag. His stand-up comedy is excruciating, his ...

The Cambridge Analytica Con
March 21, 2018
“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture, and hence creates desire rather than a mere feeling of ought.” —Walter Dill Scott, Influencing ...