Several years ago, I met Jackson Katz at a fundraiser for the film “Hijacking Catastrophe.”  He was featured in a few films by Sut Jhally and the Media Education Foundation about masculinity and violence, and I was making a fair amount of noise about this association, too; so Sut introduced us, and we started talking [...]

Was 2009 really three years ago?  Were we talking about Blackwater, torture, and the Reichian warrior-father back then?  I suppose we were. And about how tempo tasks are the ritual used to manifest the warrior-father.  Reviewing then with Ann Kibbey, 2003: Both liberals and leftists in the U.S. have had difficulty in believing that a [...]

A Review of Conceiving Parenthood:  American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction, by Amy Laura Hall (Wm. D. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008) In the 20th Century, the United States of America documented itself as no other place has ever been.  We wrote down everything we thought.  We took a lot of pictures.  No realm of [...]