Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
Literary,
Journalistic,
Irreverent Yet Oddly Serious
All Categories - Journal of the Plague Years
December 22, 2024 ·
J.P. Sottile aka The NewsVandal We are heading into new territory, folks. Elon Musk, who is, as...
December 22, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin The first time many of us heard about Curtis Yarvin was right before the vice...
December 10, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin It was just an ordinary Monday. The New York Times tried to explain why some young...
December 8, 2024 ·
Lisa Alvarez It’s PIQ season. I expect this means little to most unless you are a hopeful...
November 28, 2024 ·
Marc Cooper The ongoing capitulation to Donald Trump by the mainstream media continues, slowly...
November 28, 2024 ·
Patrick Fealey A.D. 2024—The United States Twenty-seven degrees in a Port-A-Jon, the seat...
November 17, 2024 ·
Andrew Tonkovich 1. They’re selling postcards of the hanging. Fortuitous, as those citizens who...
November 16, 2024 ·
Sarah H. de Kay From the safe distance of the Chamousseau woods in central France, the Biden...
November 16, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin The Power of the Powerless is the name of a slim volume written by Vaclav Havel in...
November 16, 2024 ·
Marc Cooper UPDATE: Five minutes after I finished writing this Wednesday afternoon, Matt Gaetz...
November 7, 2024 ·
Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you...
November 7, 2024 ·
Jay Jochnowitz Guy comes out of parking lot onto Route 20, leaving rubber, nearly sideswipes me...
November 7, 2024 ·
Mo Goldman We all live through our own perspective. My frame of reference is through my work as...
November 7, 2024 ·
Mikal Gilmore Day 1 Today is as hard as anything I’ve known, in either personal or national...
November 3, 2024 ·
Richard von Busack Having one of those dreams where you're trying to sleep and no one lets you...
November 3, 2024 ·
Susan Zakin “Why are Americans so stupid?” The mother of Mohammed, one of my twin stepsons’...
November 3, 2024 ·
White women over 60 may make the difference in the election. Here's why. Tucker Carlson Gets...
November 3, 2024 ·
Marc Cooper Two days before election day, two crucial points are evident: The Harris campaign...
November 3, 2024 ·
Rachel Loden In spring the yellow swastikas Sailed across the meadow. Now the autumn breeze ...
October 27, 2024 ·
Gene Weingarten I once met Katharine Graham at an intimate dinner party with five or six other...
