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Our 50/50 America (Part III): The World WILL be rebuilt. The only open issues are: How and by Which Side?

Voters want REAL CHANGE RIGHT NOW... The red side of 50/50 America is giving their answer; the blue side is flopping and flapping like a dying fish on a…

Aug 27, 2025 • Martin Luz

Short Takes

GEMS OF THE MONTH: Reminders that our reality-based world is still here

A few beautiful truth bombs from the world outside the spin zone...

Jul 30, 2025 • Martin Luz

Hype: The most exciting, positive, empowering innovation ever made in human communication!

A prelude to tomorrow's Podcast episode: Why does it seem like hype is eating the world? Because in many ways, it is.

Jul 22, 2025 • Martin Luz

StoryTime: “Uncurated” Online Content Does Not Exist

If you think you're getting “uncurated” content online, you're wrong.

Mar 19, 2025 • Martin Luz

StoryTime: The Old World Is Dead. Accept it.

We are never going back to the way things were.

Mar 11, 2025 • Martin Luz

StoryTime: Revenge of the Expert Inexperts

Billionaire Elitists Wage a Narrative “Anti-Elitism” War on Democracy (and Expertise)

Mar 4, 2025 • Martin Luz

Long-Form Commentary

Our 50/50 America (Part III): The World WILL be rebuilt. The only open issues are: How and by Which Side?

Voters want REAL CHANGE RIGHT NOW... The red side of 50/50 America is giving their answer; the blue side is flopping and flapping like a dying fish on a…

Aug 27, 2025 • Martin Luz

Our 50/50 America (Part II): Voting red is a vote to build a new anti-pluralist world

What the red side of 50/50 America is tearing down isn't nearly as important as what they're building up -- and what they're building on.

Aug 21, 2025 • Martin Luz

Our 50/50 America (Part I): Rewriting the received wisdom about America’s “divided politics”

"50/50 America" doesn’t mean what it did just six months ago. Any discussion of the prerogatives of voting in a 50/50 nation must change with it.

Aug 12, 2025 • Martin Luz

“Trumpism” Doesn’t Exist, and Why It’s So Terrifying (Addendum)

We spent four years trying to get notice for our exhaustive piece on the fallacy of "Trumpism." Nobody headed it. But it all came true. Told y'so.

Feb 2, 2025 • Martin Luz

"Trumpism" Doesn’t Exist, and Why It’s So Terrifying (Intro)

[THIS CONTENT WAS WRITTEN LONG BEFORE THE 2024 ELECTION, AND YET IT'S MORE RELEVANT TODAY THAN WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN.]

Feb 2, 2025 • Martin Luz

BS of the Month

BS of the Month (March 2025): "Bullshitters Prove Their Own Guilt" Edition

Sometimes bullshitters do us a favor and dump evidence of their own guilt right in our laps.

Apr 11, 2025 • Martin Luz

BS of the Month (Feb 2025): How-to-Tell-It’s-Bullshit… Special Edition

(Strap in, get a hot chocolate, snuggle with your pets. There's a lot of BS to wade through)

Mar 6, 2025 • Martin Luz

BS of the Month (Jan 2025): The Cardinal Sin of Spinning a Harm as a Blessing

At LiteralMayhem, we’re interested in stories.

Feb 6, 2025 • Martin Luz

BS of the Month Award: Why I’m Not Fit For GoldmanFlacks (12/03/2009)

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Jan 3, 2025 • Martin Luz

BS of the Month Award: Gray Lady Calls Out Freddie Mac CEO Syron for Being Two-Face (08/05/2008)

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Jan 3, 2025 • Martin Luz

Press Releases from Hell

PRESS RELEASE FROM HELL: Media Giants Strike P.R. Deal with Gun Industry

Entertainment Conglomerates Will Now Get Paid for Gun-Centric Content

Apr 24, 2025 • Martin Luz

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Join Forces to Create New “Reality Management” Industry

Joint Venture Builds Immersive Autonomous AI Platform Aimed at Total Reality Capture

Feb 27, 2025 • Martin Luz

META CEO DONATES “Move Fast and Break Things” TAGLINE TO NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

Tagline will appear on $100 bill and all official White House memorabilia, inspires revised motto for presidential seal: “E Unum Pluribus”

Jan 23, 2025 • Martin Luz

Podcast

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Podcast Ep. 2... HYPE: WHY IS IT EATING THE WORLD?

Listen now | A wide-ranging conversation about our culture of hype, with a special focus on technology and AI

Jul 23, 2025 • Martin Luz

Welcome to the LiteralMayhem podcast!

Listen now (28 mins) | In this inaugural episode, we discuss the power of stories in shaping the world--and how this podcast will be a "story about…

Jul 16, 2025 • Martin Luz

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