by Sean Palmer | Nov 5, 2026 | Opinion
When Americans say “religion and politics,” they mean the religious right. Evangelicals vote Republican. Democrats treat faith the way some families treat money: real, private, and better left unspoken. On Tuesday night, there was a snapback. In my home state of...
by Sean Palmer | Oct 27, 2026 | Opinion
Every grift begins with a feeling. And Elizabeth Holmes is a grifter. Or maybe not. She may be a sociopath or the tragic victim of her own inability to communicate or the sufferer of abuse from predatory men. Her flat affect and literalism left me wondering whether...
by Sean Palmer | Oct 2, 2026 | Opinion
In 1976, Paddy Chayefsky gave us a warning in Network that most people thought was so fanciful and ludicrous it would never happen. The film told the story of a man unraveling in real time on TV. Instead of getting him the relief and help he needed, television...
by Sean Palmer | Sep 23, 2026 | Opinion
In David Ayer’s film Heart of the Beast, Brad Pitt plays James Belmont, a former Army Special Forces operator who is alone in the Alaskan wilderness with his retired combat dog, Odin. That’s just the way they both want it. Belmont and Odin, both suffering from PTSD...
by Sean Palmer | Sep 15, 2026 | Opinion
When your dad is an American history teacher, your class meets around the clock. My dad both lived through and taught American history. He was a child of the civil rights era and educated my brother and me around coffee tables and turntables as he taught the...
