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Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation: Part 3
The Fifth Amendment no longer exists as a functioning law of the land
Column, May. 16, 2013
Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation: Part 2
Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws
Column, May. 2, 2013
Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation: Part 1
We are governed today by an arbitrary legal hodgepodge
Column, Apr. 18, 2013
Letters at 3AM: Me, Myself, I, and Muriel
A poem can awaken many selves
Column, Apr. 4, 2013
Letters at 3AM: Miss Sunshine Takes Another Bow
Those who are both greatly gifted and severely damaged must remain true to their gifts
Column, Mar. 21, 2013
Letters at 3am: Doppelgängers
Across generations and geography, doppelgängers emerge
Column, Mar. 7, 2013
Letters at 3AM: The Future Loose Amongst Us
Digitalized fabrication changes everything we know about work and government
Column, Feb. 21, 2013
Letters at 3AM: The Revolution Will Be Printed
Digital fabrication will change the course of the future
Column, Feb. 7, 2013
Letters at 3AM: What Are Human Beings For?
No I, only robot
Column, Jan. 24, 2013
Letters at 3AM: Notes on a Long, Long Journey
Artists are but translators of that which flows through them
Column, Jan. 10, 2013
Letters at 3AM: Winter Reveries
No matter the season, no matter the climate, when I write I write in winter
Column, Dec. 28, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Did Abraham Lincoln Deserve a Second Term?
In 1864, Lincoln would have seemed more in favor of war than peace
Column, Dec. 13, 2012
Letters at 3AM: The Lincolns of Hollywood
It is dangerous to view history through the eyes of sentimentality
Column, Nov. 29, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Reveries
Beauty is something you don't have to deserve
Column, Nov. 15, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Things Like That
Under Obama, we have been subjected to a Patriot Act on steroids
Column, Nov. 1, 2012
Letters at 3AM: A Big Picture and a Long Game
A U.S. military powered by biofuels could be a game-changer that ends the oil wars
Column, Oct. 18, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Too Much of Nothing
The United States pacifies Afghanistan just enough so that China can profit
Column, Oct. 4, 2012
Letters at 3AM: A Century Since 'The Water Nymph'
On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand
Column, Sep. 20, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Why Not Chicken Fat?
The most important political question of our time: Who benefits from military spending?
Column, Sep. 6, 2012
Letters at 3AM: The System Ain't the System
The goal of oligarchy is to utterly disempower the workforce
Column, Aug. 30, 2012
Letters at 3AM: A Jog in the Smog
What we know is increasingly disconnected from what we do
Column, Aug. 9, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?
The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding
Column, Jul. 26, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Accidents of Birth and Rebirth
The unacceptable trade-off for a medically extended life
Column, Jul. 12, 2012
Letters at 3AM: 'I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing'
"Route 66" taught me that I did not want to be rooted again
Column, Jun. 28, 2012
Letters at 3AM: 'Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain?'
In the early part of the Sixties, television's "Route 66" offered a taste of the new American consciousness
Column, Jun. 14, 2012
Letters at 3AM: 'Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?'
"Route 66" spoke to the sense of change afoot in America
Column, May. 31, 2012
Letters at 3AM: A View From the St. James Hotel
The St. James: It's an infirmary, it's a morgue, and it's a hotel where we each share a room with the dead
Column, May. 17, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers
Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers
Column, May. 3, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Created He Them
From Miss Universe to the military, gender roles don't mean what they used to
Column, Apr. 19, 2012
Letters at 3AM: A Pattern of Subversion
President Obama regularly oversteps his bounds of office
Column, Apr. 5, 2012
Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years
April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to
Column, Mar. 22, 2012
Letters at 3AM: The Return of Our Angel
Marilyn Monroe has returned to us recently in various guises
Column, Mar. 8, 2012
Letters at 3AM: These American Dreams
Steve Erickson's novel 'These Dreams of You' is a profound and hilarious salute to family values and America
Column, Feb. 23, 2012
Letters at 3AM: It Came From the White House
Obama and a majority of Democratic legislators support the NDAA, allowing the arrest of U.S. citizens without a warrant
Column, Feb. 9, 2012
Letters at 3AM: NDAA: Obama's Betrayal
NDAA: Obama's Betrayal
Column, Jan. 26, 2012
Letters at 3AM: James Hillman (1926-2011)
Remembering James Hillman
Column, Jan. 12, 2012
Letters at 3AM: What's Your Sign?
Michael Ventura observes the Occupy signs of our times
Column, Dec. 29, 2011
Letters at 3AM: Occupy the Future
Corporations are not people
Column, Dec. 15, 2011
Letters at 3AM: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 3
Investment, invention, and labor: the three pillars of commerce
Column, Dec. 1, 2011
Letters at 3am: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 2
You cannot arrest a population
Column, Nov. 17, 2011
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