Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 1
Over the next few days, I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of …
Over the next few days, I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of …
Telemachus is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer’s Odyssey. The first four books of the Odyssey focus on …
Yesterday, I had lunch with a good friend at a restaurant in New York that shares a bathroom with the …
Shortly after the world changed on November 8, 2016, one of my no-longer-friends enthusiastically declared that we finally had a …
Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, Hail Satan? is …
During his 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump recycled a campaign slogan used several times before (by Ronald Reagan and Bill …
In 2010, Camille Paglia wrote an essay for The Sunday Times entitled “What’s Sex Got To Do With It?” Despite …
I was told not to write this. I was told not to “pick a fight.” I was told to be …
Dearest reader, My latest book, L.A. Private Eyes, examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, …
I have daddy issues. My father was detached and disinterested (at best) for most of my childhood and adolescence before …