Matt McCawTomato Face: Hollywood’s Ugly Debt to Italian AmericansMy son is 3/8ths Italian, a fact which is fun and is the source of a small amount of pride for me, a life-long fan of all things Italian…5 min read·Mar 16, 2022----
Matt McCawOld Books are Boring. Why is that?Old books make us feel stupid. Most of us know the feeling, whether we remember it from our school years or if we happened to pick up a…4 min read·Nov 29, 2021----
Matt McCawSyphilis, #Metoo and Covid19If you’re anything like me you’ve had plenty of free time in the past year, and you’ve probably spent some of it binging sitcoms and…5 min read·Sep 15, 2021----
Matt McCawJefferson, The Louisiana Purchase and the real flaw at the heart of our democracyBy Matt McCaw6 min read·Nov 25, 2020----
Matt McCawinAn Idea (by Ingenious Piece)Diversity, Hollywood and the Lump Jobs Fallacy: How a simple economic principle can solve a…Since #oscarssowhite began in 2015, the debate surrounding diversity has been at the front of discussions of entertainment. The question…5 min read·Oct 15, 2020----
Matt McCawThe Ghost of 2004: How a Largely-Forgotten Presidential Campaign threatens to Repeat ItselfBy Matt McCaw4 min read·Aug 30, 2020----
Matt McCawFascism: Don’t call it a comeback!Forecasts and warnings about nascent Fascism have become a regular feature of American public life, and the familiar chorus sang out again…5 min read·Aug 21, 2020----
Matt McCawHow do you solve a problem like Amerigo?If Christopher Columbus ever got laid in the New World, he left no record of it. It’s likely that the closest the Admiral of the Ocean Sea…5 min read·Aug 14, 2020----
Matt McCawConfederate Monuments: America’s Original Participation AwardsNapoleon Bonaparte’s name has been slapped on just about everything in the last two centuries. The little corporal has a cognac, a complex…4 min read·Aug 12, 2020----