Author: Alan Elrod

Earlier this year, I argued that American politics as mediated by our smart phones was bested by increasingly dysfunctional forms of parasocial relationships. In particular, […]

The right-wing freak out over Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is old news by now. They hate its casting, mainly the presence of Black and trans […]

Lindsey Graham is dead. He was not a great public servant, but he was, for better and worse, an important one. And like all important […]

Last summer, I wrote an essay about the danger posed to adoptees by the efforts to end birthright citizenship. At the time, I wanted to […]