Is Polling Dead?

A partially knee-jerk reaction on the political scene. Is political polling dead? Short answer: probably not. Pollsters may expand their margins of error and modify their methods, but the allure of reducing policy questions to percentages of voters in favor or opposed...

Rear Window, Vertigo, and the battle for reality

Disclaimer and spoiler alert: Both of the movies which I am about to discuss are far too complex to be reduced to one theme. Books can and have been written to tease out all the layers in Hitchcock’s filmography, this little essay is a focused attempt to think about...