David Klion
State of Exception | National Security Governance, Then and Now
David Klion
Minutes into his January inaugural address inside the U.S. Capitol dome, standing before the leaders of both parties and the world’s wealthiest tech oligarchs, Donald Trump declared a national emergency. America was confronting “threats and invasions” from across the U.S.-Mexico border, the new president explained, and extraordinary steps would be necessary “to defend our country” from migrants. “Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored,” he promised. With...
XOXO, Ruling Class | Gossip Girl, The O.C., and the New Gilded Age
David Klion
In 1976, the year Josh Schwartz was born in Providence, one tenth of one percent of American households controlled 7.5 percent of the nation’s wealth. By 1995, the year Schwartz graduated from a private, arts-oriented high school, that share had risen to 13.5 percent. By 2003, when the Schwartz-penned high school drama The O.C. premiered on Fox, it was at 15.9 percent; by 2007, when the Schwartz-produced Gossip Girl premiered...
