Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.

Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn't kick up the usual fuss?

Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your delicate constitution, amounting to a caution against playing on traditionally male wavelengths.

Michelle Dean
Michelle Dean

Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various parts of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any historical writing.