Way back in 2011, RR and I conceived the idea of a new series where writers would look […]
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
ToM’s audience has steadily grown for years, ever since it was invented in a humble Palo Alto garage […]
We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]
The Affordable Care Act was passed a mere few months after Tropics of Meta started, in early 2010. […]
In the 2014 film Top Five, Chris Rock’s character has set out to make a film called Uprize, about the […]
Remember the old saw about how history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce”? The 2012 political spoof The […]
In one of my favorite 30 Rock episodes, Tracy Jordan refers to his son as “this little d-bag.” […]
We have been asked by organizers from Duke University’s union for contingent faculty to publish this open letter, […]