Abraham Josephine Riesman

Nov 26, 2024 | vulture.com | Abraham Josephine Riesman

This article was originally published on February 1, 2016. Jim Abrahams, one of the three writer-directors of Airplane!, died on November 26, 2024.

Oct 12, 2024 | josie.zone | Abraham Josephine Riesman

This essay was originally published in The New York Times on February 26, 2023. What shall we call contemporary Republican ideology? Is it conservatism? Libertarianism? Authoritarianism? Trumpism? Fascism? How about kayfabe? It’s a term that emerged from the sweaty, steroidal locker rooms of that most American of art forms, professional wrestling — but it’s a philosophical rubric that can be used to understand a wide range of phenomena: entertainment, business, religion and, especially, politics.

Jul 29, 2024 | slate.com | S.I. Rosenbaum |Abraham Josephine Riesman

Politics As Kamala Harris rose to national prominence over the years, lawyer and lifelong LGBT advocate Shannon Minter felt a growing sense of alarm. Not about Harris’ success—but about what was being said about her by Minter’s fellow transgender activists and writers. “Harris’s work has contributed to some of the most violent conditions faced by trans people,” wrote ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio in 2019, during Harris’ presidential primary run.

Jul 10, 2024 | slate.com | Abraham Josephine Riesman

Politics There’s a surplus of despair in the American far left these days. Between Joe Biden’s ongoing support for the mass slaughter in Gaza, the Supreme Court’s abysmally craven decision to grant Donald Trump near-total legal immunity, and the chaotic fallout from the first presidential debate, those who once might have voted for Bernie Sanders are finding quite little to feel hopeful about. As a result, more than a few people on the left are thinking about not voting altogether.

Jul 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | Abraham Josephine Riesman

There’s a surplus of despair in the American far left these days. Between Joe Biden’s ongoing support for the mass slaughter in Gaza, the Supreme Court’s abysmally craven decision to grant Donald Trump near-total legal immunity, and the chaotic fallout from the first presidential debate, those who once might have voted for Bernie Sanders are finding quite little to feel hopeful about. As a result, more than a few people on the left are thinking about not voting altogether.