WASHINGTON—This weekend, over one million Americans protested plans for public healthcare options. Citing variously “creeping socialism”, “Obamacare” or “just keeping Uncle Sam out of my…
Posts published by “Dan Geddes”
Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book (Vol. 1) and the founding editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news.
Geddes' satires and critical essays in The Satirist have been widely cited in books and academic journals and assigned in Literature courses in the US and countries abroad. He lives in Amsterdam.
Rick Perlstein Review by Dan Geddes Nixonland reads like a tragi-hilarious movie reel of the Sixties. Perlstein’s narrative is sweeping, colorful and dense as it…
by Naomi Wolf Review by Dan Geddes The Bush Administration has polarized the American people as few presidencies before. Even while President Bush himself…
by Evan Keliher Review by Dan Geddes Editor’s note: The Satirist does not endorse tyrannicide in any way. This is just a book review! …
by Dan Geddes Like many Amsterdam residents, my family does not have a back garden, and so during warm summer days, when we wish to…
The Career of Hans Donkerzijde, and His Amsterdam Portal Imaginary review by Dan Geddes One of the great what-ifs of Amsterdam “Golden Age” architecture was…
by Dan Geddes They say you can get the best apple-pie in Amsterdam on Saturday at the little café on the Noordermarkt. I get mine…
By Dan Geddes 12 September 2006 Are you a conspiracy theorist? Please take this self-test. If you frequently read internet news, then you may have…
Gravity’s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon Essay by Dan Geddes 7 July 2006 Contents Introduction Part 1 – Beyond the Zero Part 2 – Un Perm’ au…
Not German. That’s the first thing they tell you, in the Dutch language books and everywhere else. Well, it’s really not. Linguists even date Dutch…
by Dan Geddes When you think of Holland, the bicycle stands right up there with dikes, windmills, cheese and wooden shoes. It’s very flat here…
NEW YORK. Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore reportedly will no longer fly on commercial airliners out of fear of a possible crash. “Well, maybe I’m superstitious about it.…
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