Reality Check – CAVEAT EMPTOR: Or How Facebook, Russia And The American Voter Equal Freedom James Campion October 18, 2017 Columns Except for the president of the United States and a few FOX News shut-ins, it has been long established that the Russian government had an effect on the 2016 presidential election. Whether this included the Don...
Thomas Earl Petty: 1950 – 2017 Arts Weekly October 11, 2017 Interviews by James Campion Comedian Marc Maron has a bit in his most recent Netflix special in which he struggles with bridging the gap between Trump voters and Trump haters which centers on the universal appeal o...
Reality Check – NFL Patriotic Nonsense Has Two Sides, Corporate Con Comes Home to Roost James Campion October 4, 2017 Columns The National Football League has done a magnificent job these last few decades conflating patriotism with its product; a product, by the way, run by despots, played by a disturbing number of criminals, and whos...
Reality Check – Jimmy Kimmel & The New Age Of Celebrity Politics James Campion September 27, 2017 Columns The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. – Mark Twain We have a steadfast rule around here that makes it easy to base all of ...
Reality Check – The Hillary Delusion: Loser’s Lament (A Commentary) James Campion September 20, 2017 Columns Guess who has a new book out? Guess what it’s called? Hillary Clinton’s, What Happened, has hit the shelves (or hit the Amazon shipping boxes since bookstores are disappearing daily) and it provides us wi...
Reality Check: Readers’ Responses James Campion September 6, 2017 Columns James, This was one fantastic piece. (THE SUMMER OF ANNIE HALL AT 40 – Issue: 7/19/17) Annie Hall has gone from an underrated classic that was showered with awards and accolades and put Woody Allen on the ma...
Reality Check: Radical Caucasian Terrorism & The President Who Defends It James Campion August 23, 2017 Columns From 2008 to 2016 violent White Nationalist incidents in U.S. totaled 115. In the same time frame there were 63 Islamic Radical Terrorists incidents. - The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund and the Cente...
Reality Check: The “Daddy Love Me” Nuclear Stand-Off – 2017 James Campion August 16, 2017 Columns Who didn’t see this coming? The second Donald Trump took the oath of office, all of it; wildly manic Tweet storms about TV hosts and obsessions with fabricated inner demons and spastic firings and institutio...
Reality Check: The Unsinkable ACA – Bulletproof “Obamacare” Rolls On James Campion July 26, 2017 Columns It survived six grueling months in 2009 into early 2010 of hearings, debates, propaganda—both pro and con—and an unprecedented act of partisan solidarity to be passed. It survived waves of protests and court he...
Reality Check: The Summer Of “Annie Hall” At 40 James Campion July 19, 2017 Columns Pop culture is the folk culture of the modern market, the culture of the instant, at once subsuming past and future and refusing to acknowledge either. - Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces I heard comment...
