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Joe Biden and Chris Dodd rise above the other primary candidates in terms of achievement and hands-on experience in what a president needs to know

Jan. 4, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

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Steve Erickson's new novel Zeroville shows what you have to go through to see how monotheism screws up your consciousness

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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I'd never met anyone so different in private from what Norman Mailer appeared to be in public

Nov. 23, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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At least four factors could determine the nominees and results of the next presidential election, and nobody's talking about them yet

Nov. 9, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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The United States failed because its people overvalued their ideals and undervalued their resources

Oct. 26, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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An economy of speculation is an economy of debt

Oct. 12, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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A report from 2107: The decline and fall of the former United States of America

Sept. 28, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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The current economic crisis is real, probably systemic, and maybe dire

Aug. 31, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini: The great achievement of these film directors was to create living souls to look at, that we might know ourselves

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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8:15am, the moment Hiroshima was bombed, comes around every morning: It is something we live with

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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If I hadn't become a writer, I'm sure I would still keep the scribbles and torn scraps that I jot down like fragments from an inner life

July 20, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Financially and militarily, we're not a superpower anymore – though no presidential candidate can admit that

June 22, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Excerpts from Cassavetes Directs, Ventura's forthcoming book about the making of the film Love Streams

June 8, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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No class can cultivate what a writer most needs, the gift I call the 'talent of the room'

May 25, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Heterosexuals are no longer the sole 'official' definers of marriage and gender.

April 27, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Family life in the Bible mirrors the worst in anyone's family

April 13, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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People in the small towns of the West and Midwest are watching their communities, and their way of life, shrivel and die.

March 30, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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Like everybody else, I’ve come to take the computer’s marvels for granted. I’ve even come to take for granted that, roughly every two years, I’ve got to shell out for a new model.

March 2, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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U.S. military action against Iran is not likely to be tolerated by Europe, Russia, and China

Feb. 16, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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The widespread and richly deserved condemnation of President Bush's new Iraq "plan" has been high on rhetoric and low on specificity

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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This is the number of deaths a year caused by how we do (or don't do) health care. A decade of that, and it's as though terrorists nuked Chicago.

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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When your novel crawls along at about a paragraph per night and your apartment is tired of your company, then hooray for Hollywood and trans-fat popcorn: A summary of the movies seen by Ventura in 2006.

Jan. 5, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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One of the great lessons of civilizations is that smarts don't count for much in the long run

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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The film Babel is winning awards, but none of them for Best Comedy. It seems I'm fated to laugh alone.

Dec. 8, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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Democrats may vote for laws like the PATRIOT Act that gut the Bill of Rights, but Democrats do not initiate laws that abolish our freedoms – an important distinction.

Nov. 24, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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Republican stewardship of our government has miserably failed. Polls show that Americans finally realize this, but we don't know if that will translate into votes.

Oct. 27, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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On September 28, key rights guaranteed by our Constitution, plus the central tenet of the Magna Carta, were nullified by an act of Congress – specifically, the Military Commissions Act of 2006

Oct. 13, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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According to a 'USA Today' survey, 30% of all American youth hope to have careers in the arts. Who's been lying to these children?

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

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