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• What Academic Freedom? — a review of Marjorie Heins’ Priests of Our Democracy:  The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.

• The Body Politics –  a review of Nancy Cohen’s Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America.  The Brooklyn Rail, February 21013.

• City at War – a review of Steven Jaffe’s New York at War:  Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham.  Brooklyn Rail, September 2012.

• Deviant Reflections: A Voice of Sexual Freedom -- a review of Deviations, a Gayle Rubin Reader; Brooklyn Rail, June  2012.

• Urban Combustion:  When Morality & Politics Mix -- a review of Richard Zacks’ Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York ; Brooklyn Rail, May  2012.

• Another Prohibition: Uncovering the Real 1920s -- a review of Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance and Marni Davis’ Jews and Booze; Brooklyn Rail, April  2012.

• Perversion is No Longer Perverse -- a review of Margo Weiss’ Techniques of Pleasure:  BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality; Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.

• WR: The Wanders of a Lost Soul -- a review Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron:  How the Sexual Revolution Came to America; Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.

• Are You What You Wear?: The Politics of Fashion -- a review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Center of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss; Brooklyn Rail, October 2011.

• The 1920s:  The Good Times? -- a review of Capital of the World:  A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties, by David Wallace; Brooklyn Rail, May 2011.

• Points of Moral Friction:  When Classes Confront Each Other -- a review of The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy, by Lisa Dodson; Brooklyn Rail, May 2011.
  

• Cyber Wars 2.0 -- a review of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov; Brooklyn Rail, April 2011.

• The Party’s Over: Welcome to the “New Normal” — a review of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson; Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.

• Bottoms-Up American History — a  review of A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell; Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.

• Steward’s Notes from the Underground — book review of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade Justin Spring; Brooklyn Rail, November 2010.

• The Not-So Roaring Twenties — a review of Anything Goes: A Biography of the Twenties by Lucy Moore and Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent; Brooklyn Rail, July 2010.

• Sex & the City of Orgies — a review of Sex in the City: An Illustrated History by Alison Maddex and NYCSEX: How New York City Transformed Sex in America (New York Museum of Sex); Sexuality and Culture, Winter, 2004.

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• Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, CounterPunch, April 2 – 4, 2010.

• The Silent Slaughter: Sex Wars and Nation Building in Iraq, CounterPunch, August 28-30, 2009.

• Sexual Terrorism: The Sadistic Side of Bush’s War on Terror, CounterPunch, May 15, 2009.

• ’The Hard Hand of War’: Rape as an Instrument of Total War, CounterPunch, April 4, 2008.

• Bush’s Foreign Sex Policy: Imperialism’s Second Front, CounterPunch, December 22, 2006.

• Made in China: The Global Trade in Sex Toys, CounterPunch, December 2-3, 2006.

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• “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama:  Assessing Obama’s First Term,” in  Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed. Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2012).

2013

• How the Women at Good Vibrations and Babeland Helped  Liberate Female Orgasms. AlterNet, April 18, 2013.
• Genital Casualties:  Military Failure & the Crisis in Masculinity, CounterPunch, April 12-14, 2013.

• Amazon Sells 60,000 Sex Toys and Related Products? Welcome to Sex 4.0. AlterNet, March 22, 2013.

• What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today.  AlterNet, March 8, 2013.

2012

• Pregnant Women are NOT Incubators!: It’s Time to End the Right’s Campaign Against Women, CounterPunch, December 28-30, 2012.

• The Return of Infidelity: The Last Frontier in the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, November 12, 2012.

• Inside the Gulag:  Rape in American Prisons, CounterPunch, October 12-14, 2012.

• Passion, Perversion & Politics:  The Folsom Street Fair and the 2012 Election, CounterPunch, October 5-7, 2012.

• The New White Slave Trade:  The Truth About Sex Trafficking, CounterPunch, August 24-26, 2012.

• The Other Sex War:  Porn, Sex Toys & Consensual Adults Get-Together, CounterPunch, June  15-17, 2012.

• Paying the Price:  The Sexual Politics of Poverty, CounterPunch, May  11-13, 2012.

• Enforcing the Culture Wars:  The State as an Instrument of Sexual Repression, CounterPunch, April 13-15, 2012.

• Santorum and the New Know-Nothings: The Revival of American Nativism, CounterPunch, March 9, 2012.

• Happy Birthday, Mr. President:  Sex, Sin & the 2012 Election, CounterPunch, February 22, 2012.

• Amorality & False Consciousness:  The Mass Psychology of Newt Gingrich, CounterPunch, January 27-29, 2012.

• Least We Forget:  Mitt Romney, Banker & Pornographer, CounterPunch, January 13-15 2012.

• Shame of the Nation:  Sexual Violence in America, CounterPunch, December 23-25, 2011.

• Sex Scandals & Cover-Ups:  Waiting for the Second Shoe to Fall, CounterPunch, November 15, 2011.

• The Politics of Fashion:  What the Zoot Suit Tells Us About America, ANDmagazine, September 2011.

• AIDS at 30: Things Will Likely Get Worse for the Most Vulnerable, CounterPunch, July 8-10, 2011.

• Weiner Roast: The Politics of Narcissism, CounterPunch, June 15, 2011.

• Arnold’s Decade of Deceit:  Schwarzenegger’s Sexcapades and the Plight of the GOP, CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2011.

• Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism, CounterPunch, April 15-19, 2011.

• A New Dark Ages:  Sexual Health and the Republican Counter-Revolution, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2011.

• Condoms and Skins: America’s Changing Sexual Appetites, CounterPunch, February 25-26, 2011.

• Celebrating Presidents’ Day: Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, February 21, 2011.

2010-2007

• Sexy Sisters: The New Republican Women, CounterPunch, October 15-17, 2010.

• Tea Party Panic: The Fear of Sex, Race and Inter-racial ‘Pollution, CounterPunch, September 17-19, 2010.

• The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1920s, CounterPunch, June 25 – 27, 2010.

• Come Out, George, Come Out: New Scandal Rocks Christian Right, CounterPunch, May 7 – 9, 2010

• GOP in Freefall?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.

• The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U. S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19 – 21, 2010.

• Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.

• Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama: A Year One Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.

• Top Sports Sex Scandals: All’s Fair On and Off the Playing Field, CounterPunch, December 4-6, 2009.

• An Unacknowledged Crisis: America’s Failing Sexual Health, CounterPunch, December 1, 2009.

• System Failure in the Garrido Case: Sex Offenders, Media Hype and the Bureaucracy, CounterPunch, September 18-20, 2009.

• Prison Rape as Policy: When Sadism Goes Systematic, CounterPunch July 8, 2009.

• One Billion Pills Later: Viagra at 10, CounterPunch, September 20-21, 2008.

• Teen Prostitution in America:  Looking for Safe Harbor, CounterPunch, August 2-3, 2008.

• The Great Disappearing Act: 2008 Presidential Candidates & the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, January 23, 2008.

• Porn in the Closet?: Mitt Romney’s Secret Life as a Pornographer, CounterPunch, December 20, 2007.

• Senior Sex: The Real Sexual Life of Aging Americans, CounterPunch, November 24-25, 2007.

• Deviants on Parade:  Folsom Street Fair and America’s 4th Sexual Revolution, CounterPunch, October 20-21, 2007.

• Troop Maneuvers: Women Warriors & the War on Terror, Z Magazine, October 2007.

• Slugger Sex: Athletes, Violence & Male Sexuality, CounterPunch, September 22-23, 2007.

• The GOP’s Outed All-Stars: The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet, CounterPunch, August 29, 2007

• The Case of Genarlow Wilson:  Racism, Justice and Age-of-Consent Laws in America, CounterPunch, August 14, 2007.

• America’s Top Ten Sex Scandals:  James Buchanan, the First Gay President, and Other Tales of Sex and Power in Washington, CounterPunch, August 1, 2007.

• Pay-to-Play: The Double Life of Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, January 27-28, 2007.

• Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy: The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade, CounterPunch, January 12-14, 2007.

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• “End Regulation Now”:  Dreaming the Tea Party Nightmare. CounterPunch, October 4-16, 2011.

• Christian Theocrats Stealth Plan to Seize Power. ANDmagazine, August 2011.

• One Nation, Under God:  The World According to Pastor Rich. CounterPunch, August 19-20, 2011.

• Praying for Votes:  The New Way to Buy an Election. CounterPunch, August 8-10, 2011.

• The Pledge Plague:  The Cheap Price of Virtue.  ANDmagazine, July 23, 2011.

• Questions Plague Bachmann:  Playing the New Political Shell Game . ANDmagazine, July 18, 2011.

• Salon: A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country .  AlterNet, May 9, 2011.

• Culture Wars Redux: The Tea Party Congress and the Likely Return to Social Purity. CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.

• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two: The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20 – 22, 2010.

• Know-Nothings of 2010: The New War of the Christian Crusaders, CounterPunch, August 13 – 15, 2010.

• Bankrupt Morality: The Staying Power of Republican Sinners, CounterPunch, October 8, 2009.

• Shouts From the Gallery: The Sotomayor Hearings and the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 15, 2009.

• Cry, Hypocrite, Cry: Politicians and America’s Grand Tradition of Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, June 26-28, 2009.

• Porn Wars: One Step Forward, Too Many Steps Backward in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 22-24, 2009.

• Nails in the Coffin: Last Gasps of the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, January 30-February 1, 2009.

• A New Sexual Agenda: Nine Proposals for an End to the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, November 28-30, 2008.

• The Great Fear: The Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin, CounterPunch, September 27-28, 2008

• The Culture Wars Are Over: But Culture Warriors Still Terrorize America, CounterPunch, August 23-24, 2008.

• The New Texas Two-Step:  Polygamy & State Regulation of Sexual Life, CounterPunch, April 19-20, 2008.

• Playing the Race Card: Barack Obama, Love Across the Colorline & Political Dirty Tricks, CounterPunch, February 27, 2008.

• The Scarlet Hypocrites: Republicans, Christians and the All-American Politics of Adultery, CounterPunch, November 17-18, 2007.

• Moral Hypocrisy on the Hill, Again:  The Christian Right, Sexual Scandal and the Sexual Pleasures of the Courtesan, CounterPunch, July 17, 2007.

• Those Who Preach in Glass Cathedrals: Rev. Ted Haggard & the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006.

• Perversions of Power:  Mark Foley & the Bush Administration, CounterPunch, October 27-29, 2006.

• Sex Panic on Capitol Hill: Mark Foley and the Politics of Sex in America, CounterPunch, October 10, 2006.

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• MEDIA CURRENT:  News & Analysis for Indie Makers, a Monthly Column for Filmmaker magazine:
  • April 2013:  Just How Healthy Is Independent Film Distribution?
  • April 2013:  YouTube’s Aggressive Move into Original Content
  • March 2013: At CPAC, Republicans Rev Up Conservatives Cinema
  • March 2013: Six Strikes & Your Out
  • February 2013: Opportunity for Indies?
  • February 2013: Neutralizing Net Neutrality
  • January 2013: Video Streaming & Indies
  • January 2013: Will Data Caps Kill Indie Film?
  • December 2012: Internet Alternatives
  • December 2012: Murdock’s Media Monopoly
  • November 2012: Will Comcast Get Disney?
    
  • November 2012: VOD for Indies
  • October 2012: Encrypting Basic TV
  • October 2012: Pay to View
  • September 2012: Another Web is Possible
  • September 2012: The Screen Matters
  • August 2012: Google Fiber
  • August 2012: What’s Happening, Mr. Jones
  • July 2012: Film Business Shrinking
  • July 2012:  Cell Phone Policing
  • June 2012: Artful Dodgers
  • June 2012: Personal Democracy
  • May 2012: Is Crowdfunding for You?
  • May 2012: The New Hollywood
  • April 2012: What Privacy?
  • April 2012: Cable Woes
  • April 2012: Digital Prints & the Hollywood Shuffle
  • March 2012: Are Your Being Throttled?
  • March 2012: Aereo & the New TV Wars
  • February 2012: Bruised Apple
  • February 2012: Broadband Failure
  • January 2012: At Your Own Peril
  • January 2011: End of Cross-Ownership Rules?

• December 2011: Your Should Be Paranoid
• December 2011: Your TV Future
• December 2011: The Shell Game
• November 2011: The IP Wars
• November 2011: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
• November 2011: AT&T Merger Update
• October 2011: The IFP Market
• September 2011:  Remembering 9/11
• August 2011: The Big Squeeze

• Social TV Summits: 5 Takeaways for Factual TV, December 28, 2011.

• 5 Takeaways from IFP’s Independent Film Week, DocumentaryTelevision, September 25, 2011.

• TV Wars:  Indies & Internet Distribution, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2011.

• The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don’t Know About, AlterNet, April 20, 2011.

• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?AlterNet, February 23, 2011.

• What Publishing Crisis?: User Generated Content &  the Resurrection of Media Publishing, Z Magazine, July-August 2010.

• The New York Times vs. the Pope: A Case of Selective Journalism?, CounterPunch, April 16-18, 2010.

• The New Morality Police: Corporate Censors Flex Their Muscles, CounterPunch, March 5 – 7, 2010.

• The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video, Z Magazine, March 2010.

• Obama’s First Amendment Challenge? Sexting: the Latest Innovation in Porn, CounterPunch, March 25, 2009.

• Ways of Seeing: Movies on Mobile Devices, FilmInFocus, November 19, 2008.

• The Next Telecom War:  Moving from Net Neutrality to Infrastructure Common Carriage, Filmmaker Magazine, Summer 2008.

• Write On!: The Writers Strike & Intellectual Labor in America, Z Magazine, June 2008.

• Reel Politick: Sundance ’08 & the Contradictions of Independent Media, Z-Magazine, March 2008.

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• AT&T Wants New Digital Dead Zones, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, March 7, 2913.

• Opium of the 21st Century:  The Telecom Crisis. CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.

• Looking Beyond Hurricane Sandy:  America’s Failing Telecom Infrastructure,  CounterPunch, November 15, 2012.

• How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder, AlterNet, November 8, 2011.

• Why Our Phone and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecom Privatization Scheme, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, July 26, 2011.

• ALEC, Tech & the Telecom Wars:  Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick, Huffington Post, July 24, 2011.

• Obama’s Broadband Plan vs. the Telecommunications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick, Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.

• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC:  How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, November 18, 2011.

• The Telecom Scam:  5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure Your Pay Too Much for Bad Service, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, November 11, 2011.

• The Smart Phone Con Job:  Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What Its Cracked Up to Be, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 30, 2011.

• Shills R Us:  Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.

• The Secret $8 Billion Scam:  How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.

• AT&T and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers?  Very Little, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 9, 2011.

• Its Time to Break UP AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner and the Rest of the Telecoms, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, May 11, 2011.

• How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, March 5, 2011.

• The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.

• How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.

• How Comcast and Huge Telecom Players’ Latest Gambit Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, December 22, 2010.

• Phone Companies’ $100 Billion Rip-off — Where Is That Hidden $6 a Month Going in Our Phone Bills?, with Bruce Kushnick, Alternet, , December 11, 2010.

• Cable Companies’ $46+ Billion Robbery — Subscribers Have Been Ripped off for $5 a Month Since 2000, with Bruce Kushnick, Alternet, November 9, 2010.

• How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off, with Bruce Kushnick, Alternet, October 7, 2010.

• Cheap Date: Buying Minority Support for the Comcast-NBC Universal Merger, CounterPunch, September 24 – 26, 2010, with Bruce Kushnick.

• The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Why Aunt Ethel Hung Up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28 – 30, 2010,.

• Network Failure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, with Bruce Kushnick, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.

• The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video, Z Magazine, March 2010.

• The Great Broadband Scam:  Why the Recovery Plan will Fail to Meet America’s Broadband Needs, MediaChannel, February 25, 2009.

• What now for broadband and the telecoms?, with Bruce Kushniick, Harvard-Neiman Watchdog, November 17, 2008.

• The Next Telecom War:  Moving from Net neutrality to infrastructure common carriage. Filmmaker Magazine, Summer 2008.

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