Culture Critic/Author Cintra Wilson writes regularly for the New York Times and is a frequent Salon.com contributor. Her new book, "Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny" will be in bookstores in October, 2008. Her blog can be read at www.cintrawilson.com.


Blog Entries by Cintra Wilson

It's the Freedom, Stupid

Posted September 17, 2008 | 02:40 PM (EST)


Through the choice of his pro-life running-mate, Sarah Palin, John McCain and the GOP have made one point perfectly clear:

This is a single-issue election, and the issue is abortion.

The future of America -- our precarious economy, our critical foreign policy -- everything about this election that...

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Celebrity 2.0: Fame Kills

Posted April 19, 2007 | 06:04 PM (EST)


Our society, via our mainstream media, rewards important people with attention. Positive or negative - doesn't matter which. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people - whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins.

Cho, the VA killer, wanted the...

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