Yes And: Essays in the Age of Improv
Randy FertelMusings on improvisation and its application across the arts, culture, science, history, and politics from Randy Fertel, author of Winging It: Improv's Power and Peril in the Time of Trump.
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Why My Lai Still Matters
At the 21st Annual Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth-telling on April 30th, 2026, I kicked off the evening with a speech, my longest in my many years of introducing the prizes that I co-founded 20 years ago. In this year’s speech I expl...
Why My Lai Still Matters
Thursday night was another extraordinary Ridenhour Prizes event. With 250 attending at the National Press Club, Roberta Baskin, an audience member in 19 of the past 20 events, served as MC. Roberta had a career in broadcast and was herself...
Glittery Objects and the Gish Gallop
We have come to a moment when not only have our moral foundations sunk into the quagmire of another forever war, but we must also repeatedly compare facts and alt-facts in trying to dig our way out.
How do Trump’s followers fall so easily...
Why I Co-Founded the Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth-telling
Ron Ridenhour touched history when he wrote a letter to Congress and the Pentagon that gave the lie to the Army’s after-action report that declared the slaughter of 504 unarmed My Lai villagers—women, children, and elderly men—a great victo...
The Red Heifer, the Rapture, and the Orange Man
Illustration by Josh Gosfield
In a 1998 New Yorker piece, “The End Times,” Lawrence Wright wrote about American Pentecostals’ strange quest for the red heifer. It’s a long story and well worth reading, but here’s the short of it: if “a red...
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Ex-Romanticist, obsessed with improvisation, dabbler in the history of science, founder of Ridenhour Prizes for Courageous Truth-telling (Ridenhour.org), author of Winging It: Improv’s Power and Peril in the Time of Trump.
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