Michael Ventura
May 14, 20189 min read
Ventura at 4am / March 24 2018: History As This Afternoon
Note: My first draft was written on the afternoon and early evening of March 24th. Pneumonia intervened. The piece was completed in May....
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Feb 18, 20187 min read
And Thy Right Hand Shall Teach Thee
Here We Go Yet Again… Nineteen years ago – May 28 1999 – The Austin Chronicle published a Letters At 3am column concerning the Columbine...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jan 17, 201816 min read
THE OBVIOUS, THE EVIL, AND THE E-STREET SHUFFLE / Ventura at 4am
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. The Obvious “Well, just so you...
Michael Ventura
Jan 1, 20182 min read
No One's Ever Made A Good Movie of Don Quixote
I am as full of sinning as Mack the Knife – I am as full of carelessness as Falstaff – I am as full of idiocy as Juliet on that balcony –...
Michael Ventura
Sep 16, 20175 min read
Ventura at 4am .. Charlottesville, Arpiao, DACA
Event supersedes event. History on fast-forward. Because of what I did for so long -– forty years of commentary –- I’m moved to give an...
Michael Ventura
May 1, 20178 min read
Ventura at 4am / Pilgrims Were Refugees
“Our people came here legally, why can’t THEY?” The Pilgrims were refugees. The England they fled was an unstable country on its way to...
Michael Ventura
Mar 14, 20179 min read
Ventura at 4am / March!
This piece introduces a new series of essays, ventura_at_4am, specifically focused on Resistance and Vision during this crisis of the...
Jazmin Aminian & Michael Ventura
Feb 6, 20171 min read
Marching in Sacramento
The Sacramento edition of the Women's March. About 20,000. More than expected, and more than had ever demonstrated in Sacramento. Also:...
Michael Ventura
Nov 21, 20166 min read
A Hero's Journey
It seemed, to me, mythology. An election gripped so deeply by a mythological, collectively unconscious story that the result was certain:...
