media criticism

Christopher Hitchens and Fights Worth Having

Christopher Hitchens and Fights Worth Having

You can smell the cigarette ash and Johnnie Walker Black Label on the pages of A Hitch in Time, a gleefully pugilistic posthumous Christopher Hitchens anthology.

‘Trump and the Media’: Work-in-Progress Dispatches from a Sinking Ship

‘Trump and the Media’: Work-in-Progress Dispatches from a Sinking Ship

The warning signs of a failing media system have always been there. This MIT Press collection of media scholars and activists casts light on recent media history and where it's taking us.

Christopher Hitchens Embraced and Devoured with Equal Passion

Christopher Hitchens Embraced and Devoured with Equal Passion

Christopher Hitchens’ interviews offer a tantalizing appetizer of the breadth, scope, and urgency of the legendary contrarian’s thoughts on culture and politics

I Can’t Bear to Watch, I Must Watch: McLuhan, Postman, DeLillo, and Trump

I Can’t Bear to Watch, I Must Watch: McLuhan, Postman, DeLillo, and Trump

Americans’ voyeuristic attraction for scarlet-stained murder spectacles spills over into our need for similarly doomed entertainment in our highest national political office.

Contretemps with Christopher: On Hitchens’ ‘Arguably: Essays’