Bill Maher Doesn’t Get the Joke: A Review of Anthony L. Fisher’s Critique

📝 Bill Maher Doesn’t Get the Joke: A Review of Anthony L. Fisher’s Critique By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva 🌿 A Familiar Smear There’s something deeply familiar about the manufactured panic over “wokeness.” I’ve lived long enough to watch the same people who once spat on civil rights marchers and burned Beatles records now …

The Betrayal of Truth: How Bill Maher Became a Court Jester to Authoritarianism

The Betrayal of Truth: How Bill Maher Became a Court Jester to Authoritarianism Janet Kira Lessin With Minerva In an era when the world teeters between freedom and authoritarianism, public intellectuals — comedians included — are more crucial than ever. Yet instead of standing firm against the creeping threat, Bill Maher seems increasingly determined to …

The Patriotic Duty to Call Out Dictators Before They Start DICK-tating

The Patriotic Duty to Call Out Dictators Before They Start DICK-tating By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva It is not just a social responsibility. It is a patriotic duty to call out rising dictators before they start DICK-tating. You don’t wait until the tanks are in the streets, until the press is silenced, until the …