Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His Jewish Journal columns have won First Place in the Southern California Journalism Awards six times in the past six years. Reach him at martyk@jewishjournal.com
Skipping the inauguration
January 12, 2017
Many people are saying they won’t be watching the inauguration on TV.
How to love Trump
December 22, 2016
For a majority of Americans, feeling traumatized and terrified are reasonable responses to the words \”President-elect Donald Trump.\”
None dare call it treason
December 12, 2016
In 1964, when Barry Goldwater ran against Lyndon Johnson, a man named John A. Stormer self-published a book called, “None Dare Call It Treason.”
Like kryptonite to campaign finance reform
November 28, 2016
When Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College, most post-mortems faulted Democrats for failing to empathize with the anger and abandonment that non-coastal Americans were feeling.
The prostate presidency
November 14, 2016
In her Clinton wardrobe and hair, accompanying herself on the piano, Kate McKinnon’s cold open of the \”Saturday Night Live\” after Election Day was a dirge for the loss of Leonard Cohen, for the loss of Hillary Clinton and for the lost Americans now struggling for hope and direction.
King Comey is rigging the election
October 31, 2016
I was afraid the October surprise was going to be an act of terrorism on U.S. soil. I thought that ISIS, like Putin, calculated that hothead Trump would better serve its interests than cucumber Clinton.
Ghosts at the presidential debates
October 13, 2016
Like many others who watched the presidential town hall in St. Louis, I loved how it revealed Donald Trump’s character, and I wanted to take a shower when it was over.
Who by strangling and who by Starbucks: the fate of Yom Kippur
October 5, 2016
What would you give to know who’ll win the election? A lot, I bet — not because you’ll know whether to get out of the stock market, but because the anxiety is killing you.
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