<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title>Freezerbox Magazine - Michael Manville</title><link rel="self" href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/author.php?id=21&#38;output=atom&#38;page=1" /><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com"/><rights type="html">Copyright &#38;copy; 1997-2026 Infocrat, LLC. All rights reserved.</rights><logo>https://www.freezerbox.com/images/ads/freezerbox/bomb_88x31.gif</logo><id>https://www.freezerbox.com</id><updated>2026-05-12T06:41:46Z</updated><entry><title>People Like You</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=347"/><summary type="html">An open letter to critics of the Republican Party.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2005-06-28T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2005-10-20T20:34:09Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=347</id></entry><entry><title>Power 1, Truth 0</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=326"/><summary type="html">Anyone surprised by the media's current sycophancy need only look at the sad story of Gary Webb to see that it was a long time coming.</summary><category term="Media"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2004-12-14T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-12-15T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=326</id></entry><entry><title>Settling In</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=323"/><summary type="html">If you aren't somewhat back to normal by now, you should be. What November 2 meant, and what it didn't.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2004-11-29T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-11-29T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=323</id></entry><entry><title>Staying Angry</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=304"/><summary type="html">Is your energy level flagging as November approches? Here are eight loathsome things about the GOP to keep you going.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2004-08-25T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-09-07T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=304</id></entry><entry><title>Castles in the Air</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=265"/><summary type="html">The new buildings proposed for Ground Zero are slated to be even bigger than before. Is this nationalism, triumphalism, or one just one more aspect of the ambivalent American attitude toward cities? A meditation  on the current state of urbanism.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2003-02-12T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T20:44:09Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=265</id></entry><entry><title>The Gathering Storm</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=260"/><summary type="html">Must our foreign policy be lawless?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2003-01-23T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2004-04-20T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=260</id></entry><entry><title>Going It Alone</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=225"/><summary type="html">The world is suspicous of our motives in Iraq, and not without reason. A brief history of bad intentions.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2002-09-20T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T21:16:03Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=225</id></entry><entry><title>Constitutionally Incapable</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=219"/><summary type="html">On our inability to give up the gun.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2002-08-28T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-08-28T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=219</id></entry><entry><title>Attack of the Platitudes</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=220"/><summary type="html">The Right regularly extols globalization with a barrage of banality. The Left, in a new video, sadly reciprocates. Is there no room for a more sophisticated vision?</summary><category term="Film"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2002-08-26T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-08-28T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=220</id></entry><entry><title>Our Men in Havana</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=204"/><summary type="html">For forty years, the only thing we have been able to do about Cuba is lie.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2002-05-24T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-05-24T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=204</id></entry><entry><title>This Is American History On Drugs</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=181"/><summary type="html">Everything you wanted to know about the narcotics trade that didn't fit in a 30-second Super Bowl ad.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2002-02-25T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T21:19:02Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=181</id></entry><entry><title>All Things Must Pass</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=170"/><summary type="html">Reflections on George Harrison, the least known--and possibly best--Beatle.</summary><category term="Music"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-12-26T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-01-07T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=170</id></entry><entry><title>Life During Wartime</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=159"/><summary type="html">Four short essays from an empire of contradiction.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-11-11T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-21T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=159</id></entry><entry><title>Private Ryan, Amnesiac</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=165"/><summary type="html">As America girds for a new conflict, and as pundits offer endless comparisons to World War II, it becomes worth asking: did the Good War even exist?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-10-07T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T21:17:06Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=165</id></entry><entry><title>Harvest of Sorrow</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=151"/><summary type="html">Is Osama bin Laden a product of the very country he hates?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-09-14T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-10-20T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=151</id></entry><entry><title>The False Promise of Free Trade</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=140"/><summary type="html">If rich countries only want to help poor ones, then why do poor countries keep getting poorer?</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-07-31T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2001-08-02T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=140</id></entry><entry><title>Truth in Sentencing</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=238"/><summary type="html">What if the death penalty did what it was supposed to?</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-06-04T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T20:53:05Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=238</id></entry><entry><title>Plutocracy, U.S.A.</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=125"/><summary type="html">Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton and John Jay envisioned an America run by the rich.  They would be excited by today's corporate-dominated Cabinet, the wealthiest ever assembled.  In 2001, plutocracy reigns supreme.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Kirk Bane</name></author><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-04-10T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2007-01-04T20:41:07Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=125</id></entry><entry><title>Welcome to the Spin Machine</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=234"/><summary type="html">Do you trust these people with your food? You better. Chances are they're already making it.</summary><category term="Science"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-04-05T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-19T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=234</id></entry><entry><title>Terminator Redux</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=132"/><summary type="html">Genetic engineering will feed the hungry, if the hungry can pay the technology fee. For those who missed it the first time, here again is the story of Terminator.</summary><category term="Science"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-04-05T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-18T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=132</id></entry><entry><title>Come Back Angry</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=241"/><summary type="html">Why would anyone shoot up a school?</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-03-24T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-21T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=241</id></entry><entry><title>Clinton's Next Step</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=240"/><summary type="html">Mike Manville on why Bill Clinton should buy the Red Sox.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2001-01-24T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-20T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=240</id></entry><entry><title>What Election?</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=68"/><summary type="html">The Dems lost the keys to Election 2000, and the GOP stole the car. Manville on the betrayal of the New Democrats and the struggles ahead.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2000-12-19T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-12-18T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=68</id></entry><entry><title>An Open Letter to Alex Rodriguez</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=86"/><summary type="html">A-Rod can have his 250 million, Mike Manville just wants his 13 hours back.</summary><category term="Sports"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2000-12-18T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-21T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=86</id></entry><entry><title>Industrial Revolution Day</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=67"/><summary type="html">Greed is good! Sing along with the Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2000-10-31T08:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-10-30T08:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=67</id></entry><entry><title>Death Becomes Us: Why Americans Support Capital Punishment</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=233"/><summary type="html">Alone among advanced industrial nations still practicing state sanctioned murder, the USA is heading for a long overdue identity crisis. Mike Manville holds up the mirror.</summary><category term="Society"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2000-09-13T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2002-10-19T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=233</id></entry><entry><title>Every Man a Soldier</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=35"/><summary type="html">Is the gun control debate even about the right to bear arms? One more look at the NRA's America.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2000-06-07T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-06-07T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=35</id></entry><entry><title>The Sound and the Fury</title><link rel="alternate" href="https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=51"/><summary type="html">You don't have to be a reactionary to doubt the effectiveness of one dimensional sloganeering. Mike Manville on why tactics matter in the fight for a just world economy.</summary><category term="Politics"/><author><name>Michael Manville</name></author><published>2000-05-15T07:00:00Z</published><updated>2000-05-12T07:00:00Z</updated><id>https://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=51</id></entry></feed>