Ryan Marnane is a Ph.D. candidate, adjunct prof and graduate assistant at Salve Regina University, in Newport, R.I. He also teaches literary and cultural studies at Bryant University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, … Read more
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that … Read more
