The following is a conversation between the philosopher Douglas Kellner and cultural critic Jackson Katz about school shootings and the crisis in masculinities.

Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and author of Guys and Guns Amok, recently published by Paradigm Press....

Presidential elections are always about race and gender. The reason people are talking about them now is that a black man and a (white) woman are serious contenders for a major party nomination. Their success is making visible what historically has been hidden in plain sight.

In every previous presidential...

Much has been written and said in the blogosphere and the MSM about the February 7 incident when MSNBC's David Shuster said on-air that Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" by Hillary Clinton's campaign. Most of the commentary has focused on allegations of a pattern of anti-Hillary sexism at MSNBC,...

Larry Flynt last month co-hosted a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in Los Angeles. Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth, joined Flynt and a number of other left-leaning Hollywood celebrities at a dinner November 16 at the headquarters of Larry Flynt Publications. At the dinner, Flynt endorsed Kucinich's bid...