As I write this, the country is reeling with the news that a right-wing maniac, armed with a shotgun and bearing a grudge, burst into the offices of a small newspaper in Maryland and murdered five people in cold blood. Normally, this sort of mass killing would barely raise an …
It’s not often that I revisit a television show I’ve already written about in this space, particularly when I’m as busy as I have been lately. But then again, it’s not often that a television show goes so completely and wonderfully off the rails as Riverdale did. The teen-angst TV version …
People used to talk about a “third rail of American politics” — a topic so volatile, so controversial, so untouchable that even to discuss it publicly was career suicide. The third rail was simply a settled matter, and no matter where you stood on it, no matter where your party’s …
