He Took the Cat to Texas
This is the final story in the many-storied life of Mayer Vishner
Letters at 3AM
31-60 of 490 entries
Michael Ventura, Sept. 19, 2013
The Curious Case of the Missing Quotation
Jimmy Carter says the U.S. has no functioning democracy at present, and the press goes silent
Michael Ventura, Sept. 5, 2013
Just Since April
Secret surveillance efforts fly in the face of our Constitution
Michael Ventura, Aug. 22, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation: Part 7
Journalists and political commentators largely ignore the facts they know
Michael Ventura, Aug. 8, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation, Part 6
The Ninth and Tenth are the invisible Bill of Rights amendments – universally ignored
Michael Ventura, July 25, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation, Part 5
Our Bill of Rights guarantees are breaking down in state justice systems across the country
Michael Ventura, July 11, 2013
The Patriot Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is the American equivalent of the man who stood in front of that tank in Tiananmen Square
Michael Ventura, June 27, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4
With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law
Michael Ventura, June 13, 2013
Obama's May 23 Speech
Obama deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies
Michael Ventura, May 30, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation, Part 3
The Fifth Amendment no longer exists as a functioning law of the land
Michael Ventura, May 16, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation, Part 2
Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws
Michael Ventura, May 2, 2013
An Arbitrary Nation, Part 1
We are governed today by an arbitrary legal hodgepodge
Michael Ventura, April 18, 2013
Me, Myself, I, and Muriel
A poem can awaken many selves
Michael Ventura, April 4, 2013
Miss Sunshine Takes Another Bow
Those who are both greatly gifted and severely damaged must remain true to their gifts
Michael Ventura, March 21, 2013
Doppelgängers
Across generations and geography, doppelgängers emerge
Michael Ventura, March 7, 2013
The Future Loose Amongst Us
Digitalized fabrication changes everything we know about work and government
Michael Ventura, Feb. 21, 2013
The Revolution Will Be Printed
Digital fabrication will change the course of the future
Michael Ventura, Feb. 7, 2013
What Are Human Beings For?
No I, only robot
Michael Ventura, Jan. 24, 2013
Notes on a Long, Long Journey
Artists are but translators of that which flows through them
Michael Ventura, Jan. 10, 2013
Winter Reveries
No matter the season, no matter the climate, when I write I write in winter
Michael Ventura, Dec. 28, 2012
Did Abraham Lincoln Deserve a Second Term?
In 1864, Lincoln would have seemed more in favor of war than peace
Michael Ventura, Dec. 13, 2012
The Lincolns of Hollywood
It is dangerous to view history through the eyes of sentimentality
Michael Ventura, Nov. 29, 2012
Reveries
Beauty is something you don't have to deserve
Michael Ventura, Nov. 15, 2012
Things Like That
Under Obama, we have been subjected to a Patriot Act on steroids
Michael Ventura, Nov. 1, 2012
A Big Picture and a Long Game
A U.S. military powered by biofuels could be a game-changer that ends the oil wars
Michael Ventura, Oct. 18, 2012
Too Much of Nothing
The United States pacifies Afghanistan just enough so that China can profit
Michael Ventura, Oct. 4, 2012
A Century Since 'The Water Nymph'
On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand
Michael Ventura, Sept. 20, 2012
Why Not Chicken Fat?
The most important political question of our time: Who benefits from military spending?
Michael Ventura, Sept. 6, 2012
The System Ain't the System
The goal of oligarchy is to utterly disempower the workforce
Michael Ventura, Aug. 30, 2012
A Jog in the Smog
What we know is increasingly disconnected from what we do
