Everything Is Horrible

Everything Is Horrible

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10/24/26

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Noah Berlatsky
Oct 24, 2026
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Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

The ugly rise and ugly but amusing fall of Katie Zacharia. (Public Notice)

Bigotry is a GOP strategy and a GOP goal. (EIH)

Trump sees the patriarchy in Jon Husted’s ass. (EIH)

Cultural criticism

Class, race, and Jewishness in Dirty Dancing. (EIH)

Wuthering Heighs: House of the Damned is another terrible Bronte adaptation. (Splice Today)

Total Recall as antifascist/fascist propaganda. (EIH)

Who is more manly, Superman or Spider-Man? (EIH)

Poetry

Short poems by me. (Five Fleas)

Dream
of an eye in an eye
in a pocket. Reach in
and where did it go?

—

you read books to find
more books to read
the goal is to never catch up

From the archive

Whataboutism In Defense of Genocide Is Bad

Whataboutism In Defense of Genocide Is Bad

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Track of the week

Since I watched Dirty Dancing this week… (remember if you want to get past the paywall there’s a sale today!)

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