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By Michael Tracey In his essay, "The White Negro," Norman Mailer references Marxist thought with a level of respect but pointed to its failure in application because, as he put it, “it was an expression of the scientific narcissism we inherited from the 19th century,” motivated by the “rational mania that consciousness could stifle instinct.”…

I moved to Colorado just two weeks before Pat Schroeder was first elected to Congress in 1972. Like any newcomer, I knew little to nothing about the circumstances of her

By Michael Tracey Several incidents in particular focused my attention not on the murder but on how we seemed to be dealing with it as a culture. In March 1997 the CU branch of the Society of Professional Journalists organized a forum on cheque book journalism, particularly as it related to the Ramsey case. The…

By Michael Tracey In the mid-1980s David Mills had tried to get a budget together to make a documentary based on my work on public broadcasting, making the case that market forces would prove disastrous for broadcasting as a means of serving the public interest. We would also argue that deregulation, along the lines of…

Before the sun was high; So brief her time, she scarcely knew The meaning of a sigh. As round the rose its soft perfume, Sweet love around her floated; Admired she grew–while mortal doom Crept on, unfear’d, unnoted. Love was her guardian Angel here, But Love to Death resign’d her; Tho’ Love was kind, why should we fear But holy Death is kinder? – Hartley Coleridge On August 16 2006 MSNBC broke the story that an arrest had been made in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, a pretty 6 year old...