Browse Walker, Jesse
1-224 out of 224 article(s)
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Type |
Date |
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| Fooling the Cameras. |
Brief article |
Aug 1, 2014 |
198 |
| The Sultan of Sewers: William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision. |
Book review |
Jul 1, 2014 |
3571 |
| Collecting discord. |
Book review |
Jul 1, 2014 |
151 |
| A short history of game panics: from pinball to porn to online poker. |
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Jun 1, 2014 |
2509 |
| Choose your own adventure: propaganda, games, and the quest for a more "democratic" media environment. |
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Jun 1, 2014 |
2175 |
| A radical in Washington. |
Book review |
Apr 1, 2014 |
145 |
| Do it again. |
Brief article |
Mar 1, 2014 |
158 |
| Transforming a tower: an abandoned real estate project becomes a hive of self-organized activity. |
Book review |
Feb 1, 2014 |
1053 |
| Canadian hate speech: victory for free expression. |
Brief article |
Nov 1, 2013 |
137 |
| Hardhats for peace, students for war: the surprising shape of public opinion in the Vietnam era. |
Book review |
Nov 1, 2013 |
1197 |
| America the paranoid: from the man who tried to shoot Andrew Jackson to The War of the Worlds, a brief history of political paranoia. |
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Oct 1, 2013 |
3375 |
| Saharan sounds. |
Sound recording review |
Aug 1, 2013 |
159 |
| Incarceration comics. |
Book review |
Jul 1, 2013 |
157 |
| Patriot games: counting domestic "extremists". |
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May 24, 2013 |
381 |
| Stop demonizing preppers: there's more to this American subculture than you think. |
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May 1, 2013 |
1072 |
| Footbridge city. |
Brief article |
Apr 1, 2013 |
157 |
| Right-wing folk. |
Brief article |
Mar 1, 2013 |
149 |
| American Apocalypse: never-ending predictions that the world is about to end. |
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Dec 6, 2012 |
1805 |
| Back to Columbine. |
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Nov 1, 2012 |
394 |
| Stepford Guys: the classic tale of suburban paranoia turns 40. |
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Oct 4, 2012 |
814 |
| Remixing Muhammad. |
Brief article |
Sep 13, 2012 |
164 |
| Latter-day acceptance: Mitt Romney may inspire anti-Mormon paranoia, but it's nothing compared to the fears his forefathers faced. |
Essay |
Aug 1, 2012 |
2722 |
| A green shade of fear. |
Brief article |
Dec 1, 2011 |
156 |
| The creation of 'Closure'. |
Brief article |
Sep 9, 2011 |
166 |
| That '80s show: did Michael Jordan and Michael J. Fox invent modern individualism? |
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Jul 1, 2011 |
2275 |
| Pirates of the north sea. |
Brief article |
Jun 4, 2011 |
166 |
| The comics code goes cold. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2011 |
217 |
| Film follies. |
Brief article |
Apr 12, 2011 |
163 |
| Heads under the treads. |
Brief article |
Apr 9, 2011 |
223 |
| Unpacking Jared Lee Loughner: if you're the Southern Poverty Law Center, the media will treat your guesses like gold. |
Viewpoint essay |
Apr 1, 2011 |
1219 |
| People who live in the shade: revisionist historian Thaddeus Russell on American renegades, delusional socialists, left-libertarians, and Obama fans. |
Interview |
Feb 24, 2011 |
4086 |
| Radio theater: some prominent Republicans say they want to defund National Public Radio. We've heard that line before. |
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Feb 1, 2011 |
1989 |
| The secret lives of bees. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2011 |
163 |
| An aerobic remix. |
Brief article |
Dec 8, 2010 |
154 |
| Hidden video. |
Brief article |
Nov 24, 2010 |
135 |
| Forced to be free: what anti-TV crusades, the campaign against the "Ground Zero mosque," and Ayn Rand's "intellectual heir" have in common with the reform movements of the antebellum era. |
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Oct 15, 2010 |
1909 |
| It's all in the game. |
Brief article |
Sep 11, 2010 |
165 |
| The age of Limbaugh: when politics and popular entertainment collide. |
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Aug 1, 2010 |
2079 |
| Do androids sing? |
Brief article |
Jul 1, 2010 |
160 |
| Disco inferno. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2010 |
166 |
| Don't hope for audacity. |
Sound recording review |
May 19, 2010 |
230 |
| Disaster utopianism: looking for paradise in catastrophic places. |
Book review |
Apr 8, 2010 |
2950 |
| An anti-authoritarian odyssey. |
Book review |
Feb 17, 2010 |
169 |
| Reading a sculpture. |
Brief article |
Feb 17, 2010 |
239 |
| Looking at the world through a windshield: a truck-driving rebellion against the regulatory state. |
Book review |
Jan 26, 2010 |
2247 |
| Beyond Pleasantville: permissiveness wasn't born in the '60s. |
Book review |
Jan 1, 2010 |
2468 |
| A pirate road movie. |
Movie review |
Nov 1, 2009 |
161 |
| The way to Sesame Street: the politics of children's television. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
1085 |
| The bloggers' historian. |
Interview |
Oct 1, 2009 |
685 |
| The paranoid center: how the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent. |
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Oct 1, 2009 |
4405 |
| Tweeting under fire: disaster researcher Jeannette Sutton explores how ordinary people create their own media during crises. |
Interview |
Aug 1, 2009 |
3011 |
| The politics of superheroes: want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie. |
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May 1, 2009 |
2764 |
| Psychedelic old time radio. |
Brief article |
Apr 1, 2009 |
170 |
| In darkest Indianapolis: a poor midwestern family is demonized by eugenicists and glorified by radicals. |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
1058 |
| Frontier greens. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2009 |
151 |
| What's the matter with libertarians? Thomas Frank blames the freedom movement for Jack Abramoff and George W. Bush. |
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Dec 1, 2008 |
2950 |
| Beyond the fairness doctrine: Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC. |
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Nov 1, 2008 |
4755 |
| The Great Recycler: the late Bruce Conner made lasting art out of junk. |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
738 |
| Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground. |
Interview |
Aug 1, 2008 |
4104 |
| Warcraft on terror: virtual jihad. |
Brief article |
Jul 1, 2008 |
258 |
| The age of Nixon: Rick Perlstein on the left, the right, the '60s, and the illusion of consensus. |
Interview |
Jul 1, 2008 |
4717 |
| Hear! hear the pipes are calling! |
Brief article |
Jul 1, 2008 |
230 |
| The Wire vs. The Sun: TV's best drama takes on the press. |
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Jun 1, 2008 |
1481 |
| God on the lawn. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2008 |
229 |
| Little brother is watching: defending human rights with cameras and Internet connections. |
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May 1, 2008 |
1101 |
| Citizen lockdown: the plot against Americans. |
Brief article |
Apr 1, 2008 |
240 |
| Make mine Mormon: if only Mitt Romney were as colorful as his faith. |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
676 |
| Steve Earle's hammer: a talented songwriter puts his message before his music. |
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Feb 1, 2008 |
805 |
| Swiss, please. |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2008 |
223 |
| Let the viewer decide: documentarian Frederick Wiseman on free speech, complexity, and the trouble with Michael Moore. |
Interview |
Dec 1, 2007 |
3279 |
| Google on guard: your jungle home security system. |
Brief article |
Oct 1, 2007 |
314 |
| Killing Internet radio: copyright death sentence. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2007 |
238 |
| Disney legalizes same-sex unions: real social change doesn't come from Washington. |
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Jun 1, 2007 |
750 |
| Father of funk: the life--and afterlife--of James Brown. |
In memoriam |
Mar 1, 2007 |
1169 |
| Muddy rules: when can you curse on TV. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2007 |
245 |
| Sim pickings: real taxes on virtual worlds. |
Brief article |
Feb 1, 2007 |
291 |
| Saucer scandal: UFO cover-up! |
Brief article |
Jan 1, 2007 |
251 |
| Hollow army. |
Brief article |
Dec 1, 2006 |
193 |
| Mutiny and bounty: rogue traders spark global markets. |
Brief article |
Nov 1, 2006 |
205 |
| Welfare as we know it. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2006 |
223 |
| Outsource locally: manufacturing networks. |
Brief Article |
Feb 1, 2006 |
309 |
| The eccentric revolutionaries: banned for decades in the Soviet Union, a subversive comedy finally comes to DVD. |
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Feb 1, 2006 |
1066 |
| Virtual people power. |
Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2006 |
224 |
| Weird science: building a better Tardis. |
Brief article |
Dec 1, 2005 |
259 |
| From Barry's boys to the Deaniacs: how alternative media have transformed politics on the left and the right. |
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Dec 1, 2005 |
2545 |
| Dinosaurs vs. Darwin. |
Brief Article |
Dec 1, 2005 |
213 |
| Traffic unjammed: prez to cops: get lost! |
Brief article |
Nov 1, 2005 |
213 |
| Millions of Ghandhis: the power of nonviolent revolution. |
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Oct 1, 2005 |
397 |
| TSA on eBay: selling passengers 'possessions. |
Brief Article |
Aug 1, 2005 |
166 |
| A rumble on Sesame Street: the politics of public broadcasting. |
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Aug 1, 2005 |
743 |
| Building a new world: mini-nations for the super-rich. |
Brief article |
Jul 1, 2005 |
319 |
| "Values" and the Democrats: will the moral grandstanding never end? |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
689 |
| Supreme Court senility: historian David J. Garrow discusses decrepit judges. |
Interview |
Jul 1, 2005 |
1572 |
| Natural-Born Cyborgs. |
Brief Article |
Jul 1, 2005 |
229 |
| Ohio clampdown: the PATRIOT Act and the states. |
Brief article |
Jun 1, 2005 |
311 |
| Hospital hazing: death by licensing. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2005 |
276 |
| The hippie and the redneck can be friends: two worlds collide in film and music. |
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Apr 1, 2005 |
1031 |
| Copyrighting the air: WIPO roundup. |
Brief article |
Mar 1, 2005 |
283 |
| The fever swamps of Kansas: a leftist tries to make sense of grassroots conservatism. |
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Mar 1, 2005 |
2436 |
| Liberal demographic: Clear Channel turns left. |
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Dec 1, 2004 |
410 |
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