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Predictions for 2024

Don't Let 2024 Be The Year of the Silent Scream

2023: The Year Reality Died

Shane MacGowan and the Sadness of Diaspora

What We Really Mourn When We Mourn JFK's Death

Music Break: Talkin' Bob Dylan

Election Night 2008, Fifteen Years On

The Slow Coup Rolls On

Madonna, Mick Jagger, and the Melancholy of "It" Status

The House Speaker Mess Is a New Episode in an Old Story of Dysfunctional Extremism

What I Saw on the Last Day of the Mets' Season

2016 All Over Again?

We Never Reckoned With 9/11

How Bruce Springsteen Got Me Ready For the School Year

We Need Languages

Notes on a Journey to Small-Town America

We Need to End Our Obsession With Elite Private Universities

Forget Threads, Bring Back the Blogosphere

Contemplating American History's Dysfunctional Continuities on Independence Day

Streaming, Physical Media, and the Failure of Techno-optimism

That Last Day of School Feeling

The Age of Trump Continues

David Brooks and Values Conversations From The Left

Look at Academic Labor to Know Why the WGA Strike Matters

Dear Hollywood: Bring Back the Roadshow Format

Teacher Action Week

Democrats are Sleepwalking Back to 2016

What America Feels Like After a Weekend in Canada

An Appreciation of REM's Murmur at 40

Macron Illustrates Why Neoliberalism Endangers Democracy

America's Invasion of Iraq, 20 Years On

The Lockdown Insights Worth Salvaging

The COVID Histories We Have Forgotten

Like Trump, DeSantis Understands The Right's Love of Humiliation

Republicans Used to Drum Up Hate Against Democratic Presidents, Now They Do It Against Their Own Schools and Neighbors

The Crisis We See But Can't Name

ChatGPT and the Monstrousness of Silicon Valley Ideology

The Forgotten Veterans of the COVID Teaching Trenches

The Need For a "Values" Conversation From the Left

Thoughts on Gerstle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

Why More People in Power Should Emulate Pope Benedict's Resignation