Vol. XXIII, No. 5, May 2017

Donald Trump as Kitsch

by Jonathan Wallace

Trump looks like kitsch and was engineered by kitsch-artists, but communicates in a post-kitsch language.

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Rags and Bones
by Jonathan Wallace

"Access" to healthcare; Fox News goes supernova; beating protesters; Donald Trump and Star Trek.

Blast from the Past: Language, Lies and Power

A 2009 essay about the right's manipulations of language, which predicts the nonsense we are dealing with today.

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