Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Author Archives: Greg Olear
Rove Hack: The Anonymous Conspiracy
The latest conspiracy theory: Karl Rove tried to rig the election. And he would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those pesky Anonymous kids. Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Anonymous, conspiracy theory, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney, Nate Silver, Romney, spin, Tagg Romney, Velvet Revolution
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12.21.12: The Pros and Cons of the End of Days
If the world really did come to a grinding halt on December 21, like the Mayans supposedly predicted, it wouldn’t be ALL bad. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged apocalypse, complete and total bullshit, End of Days, Mayans, parties, prophesy, religions
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Homeland Breaks Bad
In the HBO era, there have been just four elite American TV dramas. Is Homeland the fifth? Greg Olear investigates. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, elite TV shows, Homeland, The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire, Weeds
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Protected: 40
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Posted in Memoir
Tagged 40, Ed Conard, everything that goes with it, fame, fortune, forty, HL Mencken, Hollywood, success and failure, turning 40, turning forty
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Apocalypse Soon
The Book of Revelation got it wrong: there are SEVEN Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Religion, Science
Tagged 666, apocalypse, Black Death, contagion, doom, End Days, end of the world, famine, four horsemen of the apocalypse, global warming, plague, war
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Ode to “Ode to the West Wind”
Greg Olear sings the praises of one of his favorite poems, by the great Percy Byssche Shelley. Continue reading
Hobsbawm is History: Six Lessons from Eric the Great
Greg Olear on the late, great Eric Hobsbawm, who is to historians what Usain Bolt is to sprinters. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, The Arts
Tagged Age of Capital, Age of Empire, Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm
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