Shawn Macomber is a freelance writer and journalist who contributed cultural commentary and feature writing to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2016. His pieces for the magazine ranged across topics including arts, culture, and politics, often bringing a sharp eye to offbeat and underexplored subjects.
So now that the Democratic party is well and truly feeling the Bern, how should those of us who identify not as democratic socialists nor oligarchs nor oligarch-enablers feel about those lighter-shade-of-Mao “Bernie 2016" yard signs reddening up the landscape?
In 1956, the celebrated novelist John Steinbeck declared journalism to be “the mother of literature and the perpetrator of crap.” To the non-Nobel ear, this might sound like denigration or enmity. But Bill Steigerwald’s idol-slaying travelogue of truth suggests the bon mot may have been more…
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
The Development
Flannery
The Somnambulist
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
The Savior
Tom Bedlam
The Amnesia Clinic
The Road
Boston