The Blacklist

Before we get too much deeper into Noirvember, I’ve often been asked to provide a list of my all-time favorite noir films.  This is painfully hard to do, because it’s like picking my favorite bastard child whose birth I had nothing to do with.  It’s a lot of good movies, …

Detoxifying Fascism

Michael Shermer, in his book Why People Believe Weird Things, wrote about his workmanlike history of appearing on television chat shows to debate neo-Nazis and Holocaust revisionists. Some of his colleagues, he wrote — even ones with impeccable antifascist credentials — told him he was not just wasting his time, but …