Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016
What kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?
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Jerald Isseks
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Jerald Isseks is a doctoral student in education theory, organization, and policy at Rutgers University. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
The Rumpus Review of The Big Short
My reading of the audience’s reaction to the bombast of The Big Short is not that people genuinely find the story amusing, but rather, that we are experiencing discomfort while simultaneously expecting to be entertained.