David Shields

Sep 26, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | David Shields |Sean Gorman

Democracy Dies in DarknessThe rowdy, stone-cold case for which pro wrestler most resembles the GOP presidential nominee.

Sep 19, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | David Shields

Sean Görman works as the villainous “Manager of Champions” in New England Championship Wrestling. A graduate of Emerson College’s creative writing program, he’s the author of wrestling memoir Until We’re Strangers Again and numerous articles and essays about wrestling.

Aug 13, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | David Shields

- - -Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, QAnon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum physics, deconstruction, the current “crisis” in “nonfiction”-journalism- media-“truthiness.” If the perceiver, by his very presence, alters what’s perceived, Steve Bannon, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Surkov (performance artist turned Putin strategist), et al.