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Articles Written by: THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA
Who is This?
Thomas de Zengotita (born c. 1944) is an author and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He holds an anthropology Ph.D from Columbia University and teaches at the Dalton School and New York University. His most recent book is called Mediated: How the Media Shapes your World and the Way you Live in it (2005). de Zengotita is also a contributor to the Huffington Post blog. He is working on a book entitled "Human Rights - a new foundation." He lives in New York City.
It's a minor holiday--but only Christmas gets more build-up. Partly it's the decorations. In the stores, all over people's porches and yards. It's when the weather really starts to turn, and that's like announcement music in the background of the days. ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
30 Oct 2009
OK, not knowing that Medicare is a government program is an extreme case but it highlights the ignorance factor on this issue--which is huge. I count almost everyone among the (relatively) ignorant, by the way, which points to the reason Republicans ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
3 Aug 2009
Mark Danner continues to serve us as the best source out there on the issue of "enhanced interrogation techniques." But his latest piece for the NYRB goes beyond informing us. It offers the most compelling argument I know of against Obama's "let's look ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
5 May 2009
My guess right now is that ASU will fold and give Obama an honorary degree after all. But that would not be the best result for Obama on the political/cultural stage. It would be much better if they stick to their guns and, if they do, here is Obama's ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
10 Apr 2009
OK, so the heat is on Poor Tim, that's clear. Richard Shelby, that pillar of political rectitude, is leading the charge of the vengeful to secure his resignation. Like Boss Limbaugh, they are happy to see America fail if it means Obama fails--and ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
19 Mar 2009
This finding our voice stuff is all well and good for a few true believers among fiscal conservatives, but the political calculus motivating most of the Republican party is--yet again--deeply cynical.
When even Joe Biden is admitting that the chances ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
14 Feb 2009
The temptation was always very strong and, before the Daschle kerfuffle, mounting speculation culminating in this starkly titled piece in the New York Times, suggested that it still is. This should raise red flags for all who wish Obama well because ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
5 Feb 2009
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In the '90s, the Clintons convinced me that the Democratic Party was in the tank for global capital, so I voted for Nader in 2000. Eight years of Bush convinced me that Democrats, bad as they are, ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
22 Dec 2008
I have been blogging ominously for months about American racism and how it could undercut Obama's lead in the polls come election day. I was... ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
9 Nov 2008
For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country...... ...
From THOMAS DE ZENGOTITA,
Huffington Post,
5 Nov 2008
