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Posts by: Jerald Isseks

Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016

By Jerald Isseks

August 25th, 2016

What kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?

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Tags: American Media, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Defense of Marriage Act, democrat, Donald Trump, election 2016, Hillary Clinton, immigration, Jeb Bush, Jerald Isseks, John McCain, journalism, Latino, Marco Rubio, Monica Lewinsky, news media, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Republicans, stock market crash, Ted Cruz, Toni Morrison, Wall Street, war on drugs, Welfare Reform

The Rumpus Review of The Big Short

By Jerald Isseks

February 25th, 2016

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.

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Tags: Adam McKay, Anchorman, anthony lane, Catch Me If You Can, Christian Bale, Dodd-Frank, financial crisis, Jerald Isseks, Joe Morgenstern, john steinbeck, Lehman Brothers, michael lewis, michael moore, mortgage, mortgage crisis, new yorker, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, The Big Short, The Wolf of Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal, will ferrell

Jerald Isseks is a doctoral student in education theory, organization, and policy at Rutgers University. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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