When Deportation Needs a Villain
Daniel Adongo may have been legally removable. But why did ICE also need to portray the former NFL player as a dangerous menace whose deportation made America safer?
When your actions are based on lies, you never have enough lies to explain away your actions.
When Does Ridiculous Become Dangerous?
A reflection on Sophie Scholl, authoritarianism, satire, fear, and the uneasy tension between survival and conscience in modern political and religious culture.
The Republic of Satire
Has political satire become more than comedy in our moment of democratic anxiety?
Reflecting on comedians as truth-tellers, this essay explores whether satire has become a kind of civic witness—and even a democratic immune response.
Why Tyrants Fear Laughter
Why does ridicule unsettle power in ways criticism sometimes does not?
Prompted by Jimmy Kimmel’s mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner monologue, this reflection explores why tyrants often fear laughter more than opposition.
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