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Bookshelf of Nightmares: Readings for the Age of Trump
Bookshelf of Nightmares: Readings for the Age of Trump
As a journalist friend of mine said recently, Trump has been good for one thing at least: the book business.
What I call “my bookshelf of nightma...
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Eve of Destruction
Eve of Destruction
The Eastern world, it is explodin’
Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’
You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’
You don’t believe in...
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It’s Biden, and It’s War
It’s Biden, and It’s War
“As the November election draws closer, progressives unhappy with Joe Biden and conservatives disappointed in Donald Trump may feel tempted to cast ...
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The Scottish Play
The Scottish Play
Joel Bellman
Even if it weren’t adapted and directed by the Joel half of the Coen Brothers filmmaking team, I’d run out to see the upcoming Tragedy of Macbeth,...
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Ban, Baby, Ban
Ban, Baby, Ban
Today’s conservatives have done a masterful job creating a fake media narrative casting themselves as stalwart defenders of free speech against the ...
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No ‘Third Way’ for this Presidential Election
No ‘Third Way’ for this Presidential Election
Why this year’s presidential election, especially, is not the one for voters to play around with third-party candidates.
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Reflections and Deflections
Reflections and Deflections
“The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind,” the British comic actor and writer Spike Milligan has said. That may be true, but clichés—l...
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Pandemic in the Year 2022
Pandemic in the Year 2022
I’ve been thinking about Brady Sluder lately.
You may not remember his name, but you know who he is: early on in the pandemic, he was the face and ...
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair
Our first cars, like our first serious romance, sometimes just seem destined to break our hearts. We lavish money and attention on them, depend on the...
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Art for Art’s Sake
Art for Art’s Sake
By Joel Bellman
For some 15 years, I lived a short and pleasant walk from the La Brea Tar Pits, the Page Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Almost ever...
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Forward, Into the Past?
Forward, Into the Past?
Of all the unlikely new trends, I would not have expected to see the digital native generation—especially the younger Gen Z end of it—proudly embr...
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Old Wisdom For a New Year
Old Wisdom For a New Year
Since my Christmastime column was a bit less than festive, I want to try and begin 2023 on a positive and upbeat note. Most of us are by nature eterna...
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On Homelessness, Will Crisis Bring Change?
On Homelessness, Will Crisis Bring Change?
President Kennedy famously claimed that the Chinese word weiji includes two characters meaning “crisis” and “opportunity.” But linguists tell ...
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The Truck Bomb Election
The Truck Bomb Election
By Joel Bellman
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n February 26, 1993, shortly after noon, a Ryder rental truck pulled into the parking garage of the North Tower at New York’s World Trade Ce...
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Dangerous Game
Dangerous Game
There was a time when I thought nothing of driving nearly 100 miles round-trip several nights a week to catch a double-bill at one of LA’s then-flou...
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Out of the Past
Out of the Past
The following column contains graphic descriptions of a disturbing nature.
It was about half an hour before sunset when two boys, out for an evenin...
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That Was the Year That Was…the Worst
That Was the Year That Was…the Worst
By Joel Bellman
In 2020, Americans have reaped what they sowed in the 2016 presidential election.
If 2020 was…” a Google search term, it already has more than ...
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Bob Dylan’s Jukebox
Bob Dylan’s Jukebox
“The Philosophy of Modern Song,” the title of Bob Dylan’s new book, may sound like a tendentious academic tract or undercooked master’s thesis...
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Who’s a Journalist? Who Says?
Who’s a Journalist? Who Says?
Author’s Note: As this issue was going to press, Sen. Mike McGuire and Sen. Anthony Portantino, the bill’s sponsor and co-sponsor respectively,...
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Insufficient Reason
Insufficient Reason
When we consider the crippling infirmities of American politics, let us start with the legendary cynic and social commentator H. L. Mencken, who wrote...
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The State and County Ballot Propositions
The State and County Ballot Propositions
California’s general election ballot is one of the shortest in recent history, and that’s a relief. In 1914, only three years after voters approve...
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This Is the Democratic Moment
This Is the Democratic Moment
In less than six weeks, Americans will be casting ballots in one of the most momentous mid-term elections in my lifetime. The conventional (and histor...
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The Beat Goes On
The Beat Goes On
Where were you in ’62? And what were you listening to?
It’s one of those Boomer clichés that set Millennial teeth on edge, but for anyone born b...
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Dog Days and August Heat
Dog Days and August Heat
To mark my upcoming birthday in a few weeks—it’s not a milestone, just another step on the long march to inevitable fogeyhood—let’s take a bre...
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Native Americans: First to Settle, Last to Vote
Native Americans: First to Settle, Last to Vote
By Joel Bellman
When we think of vote suppression, we tend to think of the familiar, the obvious, the visible, aimed primarily at African-Americans in the Deep South:...
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The First Amendment’s Fair-Weather Friends
The First Amendment’s Fair-Weather Friends
Despite what we’d all like to believe, free speech and free expression have never been broadly popular with the general public.
“What a ...
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Constitutionally Infirm
Constitutionally Infirm
When I was growing up, school taught me t wo principal things about the U.S. Constitution.
It was primarily a conservative document, in the sense tha...
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The Nature of Politics
The Nature of Politics
By Joel Bellman
“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at...
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Situation Normal?
Situation Normal?
Now that many of us “olds” have gotten our second dose of the coronavirus vaccine (Moderna in our case, my wife and I experiencing only minimal si...
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Wanted: A New Sheriff
Wanted: A New Sheriff
For unincorporated communities like Topanga, arguably no elected position is as important as the L.A. County Sheriff. As the top public safety officia...
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He Who Gets Slapped
He Who Gets Slapped
By Joel Bellman
Stand-up comics learn early on how to shut down a heckler. But even a veteran like Chris Rock could never have prepared for an offended Will Smith str...
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Shame On Us!
Shame On Us!
Joel Bellman holds forth on the value of shame.
Joel Bellman holds forth on the value of shame.
As long I can remember, it’s been an article of faith among the cognoscenti that “shame...
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Now, Therefore Be It Resolved…
Now, Therefore Be It Resolved…
by Joel Bellman
Columnist Joel Bellman, who defines himself as a “short-term pessimist but long-term optimist,” declares Rescuing Democracy as his New Year’s...
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Catch the Wind
Catch the Wind
by Joel Bellman
When candidate Joe Biden campaigned on green jobs and clean energy, it was easy to cheer. “Win-win,” right? The other guy, after all, had touted ...
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Degenerate Art, Then and Now
Degenerate Art, Then and Now
By the time you read this, the Neil Young-Joe Rogan smackdown will probably have ended in a draw. Spotify will keep Rogan—and possibly even take Nei...
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Defeating the Recall: Urgent and Important
Defeating the Recall: Urgent and Important
Just after I left journalism for politics, my first boss, the chief deputy to an elected official, gave me a warning: “In politics,” he told me, ...
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A ‘Rude Interruptions’ Trump Index
A ‘Rude Interruptions’ Trump Index
Women Who Have Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct:
26
Coronavirus-Infected People in Trump White House Inner Circle:
34
Americans Who ...
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Prop. 16: Back to the Future?
Prop. 16: Back to the Future?
Prop. 16, a constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot, is one of the most timely and tangible efforts to directly address the blatan...
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Proposition 15: Time to Split the Roll?
Proposition 15: Time to Split the Roll?
Proposition 15 on the November ballot is called the “Schools and Communities First” initiative. Apart from its obvious curb appeal, the name does ...
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Rude Interruptions "American Carnage"
Rude Interruptions "American Carnage"
Twice this week, people asked me to compare today’s spiraling chaos to two of the darker moments in recent history, specifically 1968 and 1992. Then...
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The Sound of Summer Playing
The Sound of Summer Playing
We all have our own ways of welcoming the summer. For students, it’s when school lets out for the year and vacation begins. For Druids and hippi...
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