Matt McCawTomato Face: Hollywood’s Ugly Debt to Italian AmericansMy son is 3/8ths Italian, a fact which is fun and is the source of a small amount of pride for me, a life-long fan of all things Italian…Mar 16, 2022Mar 16, 2022
Matt McCawOld Books are Boring. Why is that?Old books make us feel stupid. Most of us know the feeling, whether we remember it from our school years or if we happened to pick up a…Nov 29, 2021Nov 29, 2021
Matt McCawSyphilis, #Metoo and Covid19If you’re anything like me you’ve had plenty of free time in the past year, and you’ve probably spent some of it binging sitcoms and…Sep 15, 2021Sep 15, 2021
Matt McCawJefferson, The Louisiana Purchase and the real flaw at the heart of our democracyBy Matt McCawNov 25, 2020Nov 25, 2020
Matt McCawinAn Idea (by Ingenious Piece)Diversity, Hollywood and the Lump Jobs Fallacy: How a simple economic principle can solve a…Since #oscarssowhite began in 2015, the debate surrounding diversity has been at the front of discussions of entertainment. The question…Oct 15, 2020Oct 15, 2020
Matt McCawThe Ghost of 2004: How a Largely-Forgotten Presidential Campaign threatens to Repeat ItselfBy Matt McCawAug 30, 2020Aug 30, 2020
Matt McCawFascism: Don’t call it a comeback!Forecasts and warnings about nascent Fascism have become a regular feature of American public life, and the familiar chorus sang out again…Aug 21, 2020Aug 21, 2020
Matt McCawHow do you solve a problem like Amerigo?If Christopher Columbus ever got laid in the New World, he left no record of it. It’s likely that the closest the Admiral of the Ocean Sea…Aug 14, 2020Aug 14, 2020
Matt McCawConfederate Monuments: America’s Original Participation AwardsNapoleon Bonaparte’s name has been slapped on just about everything in the last two centuries. The little corporal has a cognac, a complex…Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020