Snappy Patter.
What to do if the Weinstein business is turned into comedy.
“…is a polite society.”
Acceptable, practical, and the space in between.
First setting foot onstage.
In which I examine how fortunate I was to be accepted, instead of excepted.
Pattern Recognition and Uncomfortable Admissions.
And so we remain vigilant for our own Reichstag fire…
“Decisive and overwhelming.”
Everything wrong with the president’s declared ban on transgender soldiers.
Reaction and overreaction.
A note on the current conflagration between Chicago’s theaters and one of its critics.
Skazka.
Today I find myself listening to an in-depth examination of the deadly political chess match that occurred between Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky in the years following the death of Lenin.
WRITE CLUB: FORTIFY
Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for FORTIFY.
Creative Control 