Denny Carter

There's a specter haunting National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation” – the specter of communism, or socialism, or maybe just a general leftist hostility toward capitalism.  Some of our most vaunted Christmas movies assail the very underpinnings of the consumerist machine churning furiously at the heart of this season of

I once told a right-wing filmmaker that my kindly old grandmother had been arrested and held without bond for wishing a Target cashier Merry Christmas. President Obama, I said, had created a special federal law enforcement task force tasked with snuffing out the last vestiges of traditional Christmastime celebration in

Much of our moment’s economic skepticism is thanks to crushing doomerism brought on by excessive social media use

I have a bad habit of pretending the right-wing mind is some labyrinthian construct that one can only comprehend by sinking oneself into the deepest depths of conservative thought.  Then I see right wingers begging machines to be racist and I realize how fucking stupid I’ve been, how needlessly

Open mindedness, generosity, tolerance, finding common ground in our humanity: This is what the libs want.  By “the libs,” I don’t mean anyone to the left of Newt Gingrich, but rather folks who have tightened their blindfolds during our slow but steady descent into fascism and have hoped against

Americans are raving with praise for a show about a billionaire family being tormented and killed by a saucy little demon and Democrats are shying away from an Eat The Rich ethos. That millions of Americans are titillated by the suffering of the wealthy on their TV screens apparently means