- Hal Crowther
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Nov 30, 2011
Otherwise occupied: What price revolution?
When a citizen comes of age in a plutocracy, he has no moral choice but to slay Pluto or die trying.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Oct 26, 2011
Capitalism without scruple: Rupert Murdoch
Even William Randolph Hearst might have been amazed by Rupert Murdoch's tactics.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Aug 17, 2011
Why does the right wing worship Ayn Rand?
If corporate feudalism is your dream for America, Ayn Rand is the prophet for you.
Ayn Rand's 21st-century resurrection is the work of small, almost invisible minds that cherry-pick her oeuvre for their own ends, just as they cherry-pick the Bible or The Wealth of Nations.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Jun 15, 2011
The thrill of the kill: The triumph of Osama bin Laden
Justice was well served by this ugly death, but it was no victory.
"Kuma War Episode 107: Osama 2011" is hardly the final straw, but it might be the final nail in the coffin of American "exceptionalism," our quasi-religious belief that we are better than the rest.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Mar 30, 2011
Arab Spring
The U.S. reaps what it sows in the Middle East
This "Arab Spring," as they're calling it, appears to be nothing short of a seismic correction of the status quo, one of history's inevitable turning points that no power on earth can successfully resist.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Nov 17, 2010
Gone missing: The country's conscience, brain and heart
The people have spoken. But what did they say?
America will survive this election. It will not, in the long run, survive what the voting revealed about our political system.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Nov 5, 2010
We've seen this movie before: 1994 revisited
This column originally appeared in the Indy in November 1994 after the historic midterm election.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Sep 15, 2010
The tea party: more for them, less for the rest of us
Tears of rage
This spreading national narcissism, this petulant demand to have one's way, is infecting liberals as well.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, May 5, 2010
The Tea Party
Steeped in anger, its members live in a world of paranoia and rumor
What seems to animate this movement even more than xenophobia, the raw material of racism, is "epistemophobia"—fear of knowledge—the raw material of superstition and barbarism.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Feb 10, 2010
Reflecting on the late Molly Ivins, her new bio and her crusade against corporatized America
She told you so
"Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy."
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Oct 28, 2009
Glenn Beck
Tears of a clown
The right-wing megastar embodies American popular culture at its most weird and offensive.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Aug 26, 2009
Lessons from the Henry Louis Gates case
Black, white and shades of gray
When the subject is race, a candid, balanced opinion offends nearly everyone in this polarized, traumatized country.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Apr 15, 2009
Mexico's drugs come north. America's guns go south.
The real border crisis
Our gun dealers arm all the butchers, torturers and beheaders of Ciudad Juárez.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Jul 30, 2008
White denial
Obama, race and America's selective memory
What's wrong with Obama? Not much that I can see, not compared to what's wrong with you if you think his election is a threatening proposition.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Apr 16, 2008
One nation under guns
How America has gone mad
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"—we promise them all a decent burial.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Feb 13, 2008
The elephants in the room
How the GOP lost its way
Trading Lincoln's legacy for the Southern strategy
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Oct 17, 2007
Stop the presses
The future of the newspaperwithout the paper
Staring "At -30-" square in the face
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Mar 14, 2007
That's all she wrote: Remembering Molly Ivins
Her brand of commentary—intimate, indiscreet, defiantly regional, exuberantly scathing—does not survive her and will not be revisited in the corporatized, gadgetized, homogenized future of print journalism.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Apr 26, 2006
Fatal balance: An Ice Age falls on the newsroom
The fundamental right of Americans, through our free press, to penetrate and criticize the workings of our government is under attack as never before. William Safire
A legendary reporter, who took a crooked president's scalp and was once the torchbearer for every journalist who hoped to make a difference, has become, instead, a symbol of everything that's desperately wrong with the media culture in Washington, D.C.
- Columns, Hal Crowther, Feb 15, 2006
Big boats, little boats
With its food rationing and greasy soap, Cuba forces Americans to face up to the ultimate guilt trip.
Mile after mile, century upon century of monumental architecture, much of it in picturesque decay, recalls nothing so much as the pre-industrial Rome described by Keats and Shelley.
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