Between & Beyond: Apocalypse Michael Lutomski December 10, 2014 Columns The outpouring of protest after the events of the past few weeks has lifted my spirit to a degree. It’s hard to explain. When you delve into the machinery of this culture on a regular basis, your spirit often f...
Between & Beyond: Industrialization Michael Lutomski November 26, 2014 Columns I had the opportunity to listen to Einstürzende Neubauten’s latest album. It’s called Lament. If you don’t know, Neubauten is a long-running German band that has been making cutting-edge experimental music for ...
Between & Beyond: The American Dream Michael Lutomski November 19, 2014 Columns Commentary never seems to go far enough. There are still figures out there in our culture that I respect. Maybe two: Cornel West and Bill Moyers. I like their voices. Not the timbre necessarily (though it is fi...
Between & Beyond: College Michael Lutomski November 12, 2014 Columns At one point, on Facebook, for fun (yes, this is my idea of fun), I tried to see how many American industrial complexes we all could name. I did a whole episode of this column about industrial complexes. Eisenh...
Between & Beyond: Women Michael Lutomski October 29, 2014 Columns In the last episode, I brought up the idea of the Other, and this week reminded me that probably the one group most often subject to objectification in our culture is women. It’s a strange case as the ramificat...
Between & Beyond: The Other Michael Lutomski October 22, 2014 Columns The Other is a concept I have brought up from time to time in this column, but its relevance is tied to a number of issues of supreme importance in the news cycle lately. The concept invites us to understand ho...
Between & Beyond: Consumer Power Michael Lutomski October 8, 2014 Columns We all have heard someone reference the definition of insanity at this point, so much so it has become an adage of sorts: the whole idea of doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. ...
Between & Beyond: The Perishing Republic Michael Lutomski October 1, 2014 Columns Robinson Jeffers’ poem “Shine, Perishing Republic” is entirely badass and entirely relevant here and now 89 years later. It was written in 1925, in the breath between World War I and World War II. I often searc...
Between & Beyond: Dark Times Michael Lutomski September 24, 2014 Columns Even though I am approaching my one-year anniversary of writing this column, I don’t think I have ever really written a precise condemnation of the Obama administration. I feel very lonely in my disgust with hi...
Between & Beyond: 9/11 Michael Lutomski September 17, 2014 Columns It's hard to grasp how 13 years could have passed since September 11th, 2001. Some kind of spell was cast that day and the world has seemed bound in it ever since. Time seems at a standstill. It's like an old c...
