— A Dark Salvation

— A Death and an Apology

— A Few Thoughts on the Petreus Affair

— A Mythologist Looks at the 2016 Election

— A Mythologist Looks at the 2020 Election

— A Poem for the Losers

— A Tale of Two Families

— A Vacation in Chaos

— A Truce for Christmas

— Academic Gatekeepers

— Affirmative Action for Whites

— All Shook Up: The American Dionysus

— American Exceptionalism 

— America is Coming to Help! 

— American Witch-hunt

— An Anniversary to Ponder

— An Epiphany Story

— An Indigenous Perspective on the Welfare State

— Between the Worlds

— Black Swans and White Vultures

— Blaming the Victim

— Breathing Together: QAnon and New Age Thinking

— Creative Etymology

— Cultural Appropriation?

— Death, Where is Thy Sting? 

— Deconstructing a Gatekeeper

— Did the South Win the Civil War?

— Didn’t He Ramble? A New Orleans Jazz Funeral

— Dionysus Looks at Mental Illness

— Do Black Lives Really Matter?

— Driving Dixie Down

— Evolution of a Song

— False Equivalencies

— Funny Guys, Fake News and Gatekeepers

— Gingrich and His Masks

— Grading the President

— Grief and Remembrance in Greece

— Hands up, Don’t Shoot: The Sacrifice of American Dionysus

— How — and Why — to Start A War

— How to Lead a Grief Ritual

— Initiation Weekend

— John F. Kennedy and America’s Obsession with Innocence

— Kind of a Circle

— Looking at Lincoln

— Male Initiation and the Mother in Greek Myth

— March Madness: The Attack on Libya

— Mexico’s Mother Goddess

— Military Madness

— Myth, Memory and the National Mall

— Normalizing Trump

— Obama and the Myth of Innocence

— Obama’s Tears

— Obama’s War On Syria

— Odyssey in Southeastern Mexico, 1989

— Old White Men: Historians as the Gatekeepers of American Myth

— On the Tenth Anniversary of 9-11

— Paying Attention

— Porn

— Privilege

— Protest, Grief and Memory in Mexico

— Reality Show Initiations

— Redeeming the World

— Sacrilicious!

— Shock and Awe

— Some Thoughts on the Royal Wedding

— Stories We Tell Ourselves About Barack Obama

— Thank You For Your Service

— The Background to Our Day of the Dead Ritual

— The Banality of Evil

— The Bin Laden Side Show

— The Civil Rights Movement in American Myth

— The Con Man: An American Archetype

— The Dancing Ground at the End of the World

— The Dionysian Moment. Trump Lets the Dogs Out

— The End of the World

— The Face of the Empire

— The Family Curse

— The Flag and the Hummer — How We Display Ourselves

— The Greatest Generation

— The Hero Must Die

— The Innocent American is the Violent American

— The Iran Nuclear Deal

— The Joys (and Curious Political Implications) of Reciting Poetry

— The Mystery in the Message

— The Myth of Immigration

— The Myth of Israeli Innocence

— The Myth of the Good War

— The Mythic Foundations of Libertarianism

— The Mythic Sources of White Rage

— The Other is You; Maybe Even More You than You are

— The Outside Agitator

— The Parable of the Chickens

— The Paranoid Imagination

— The Predator

— The Presidential Dilemma

— The Prince of Flowers

— The Race Card

— The Ritual of the Presidential Debates

— The Royal Wedding

— The Sandy Hook Murders, Innocence and Race in America

— The Secret of Their Appeal

— The Singing Policeman

— The Sixth Gate of Grief

— The Spell of the Mother

— The True Story of the Unconscious Emissary

— The Two Great Myths of the 20th Century

— The Weeping Woman

— To Sacrifice Everything: A Hidden Life

— Uncivil Liberties

— We are the Ones We Fear

— We Contain Multitudes

— We Like to Watch

— Well, Don’t You Know? 

— What If We Allowed That To Happen?

— What will the New Myths Be?

— Who is an American?

— Why Are Americans So Freaking Crazy?

— Zero Dark Thirty is a CIA Recruitment Film