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Author: David Roth

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After a Tragedy, the Ohio State Fair Endures
August 18, 2017
The fair—at the city, county, or state level—is one of the markers of summer, even long, difficult summers, and even if the fairs themselves occur in the fall. I have been to many: A small town fair in Virginia, the kind you see in nostalgia-drenched films where people in ...

Dunce’s App
August 17, 2017
Behavior management apps are, in many ways, a culmination of B.F. Skinner's vision for “teaching machines.”

Fire and Fury
August 17, 2017
Corey Pein receives a report from Jason Wilson in Charlottesville, and speaks to Tim Shorrock about North Korea.

Control-Alt-Fail
August 16, 2017
“Both sides do it” is a species of magical thinking perpetrated by those with a deep institutional investment in upholding status-quo power relations.

A Letter to my Liberal Friends
August 15, 2017
It should not have taken this long. Right now, there are a lot of well-meaning people, people who desperately want to believe in their own goodness, who only opened their eyes to the reality of modern fascism when the world woke up to Nurembergian images of screaming white boys ...

Goodbye, Pepe
August 15, 2017
The alt-right era my book was about—the anonymous online trolling culture, the constant evasions and ironic styles—is over.