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The Defining Moment- What a Super Bowl Half-Time Show Teaches

The Defining Moment

 

This Super Bowl game was a letdown — but precisely because it collapsed under its own hype, it became a defining moment. Its melodramatic excess forced a deeper examination of the spectacle itself, and what that spectacle reveal

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Trump Vote is a Vote for Hope

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.”  As I drive to Meg Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of th

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Who Do You Believe When You Can’t Believe Anyone?

An old joke goes like this, “How do you know when a politician is lying?” answered by, “When their lips are moving.”  One of my favorite Chicago post-construction philosophers puts it this way, “All politicians lie.  The good ones do it convincingly.

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