Tag: the election

  • On Culture, Identity, Art and the Election

    A Peripatetic Personal Essay On Diverse Topics Including, But Not Limited To, Barack Obama, 3rd Wave Identity Politics, Contemporary Art And My Life Among the Jews [this is kind of a massive essay trying to pull together numerous strands of thought. You can read the rest of it after the jump or download a PDF of it…

  • STATEMENT ON THE ARTS BY MICHAEL CHABON

    In case, for some reason, last night’s debate didn’t firmly entrench you in the “McCain is a dangerously out of touch old man on the verge of keeling over and Sarah Palin is an extreme rightwing evangelical christian nutbag” camp, then maybe this, as a supporter of the arts, will sway you to TEAM OBAMA.…