Ben Tripp

Ben Tripp is America’s leading pseudo-intellectual. His most recent book is The Fifth House of the Heart.

We’re Enduring Them Now

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

A Leftist on the Bush Payroll

A New Breed of Good Guy

Lament of the Mnemonopath

Adventures in Online Dating

A Monkey’s Uncle Speaks Out

Requiem for 2004

A Hapless New Year

The Truth About the Election of 2004

How to Shop in a Time of Crisis

Finding Money in Hollywood Today

Grieving Explained

Some Observations on the Democrats

A Few Thoughts on the Recent Election

The Chicken Salad Election

The Undecided Voter Examined

To Swing, First You Must Hang

If You Can Read This, You’re Too Close

Man Stands on Bridge, News at 11

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Electorates?

Who Dast Call Him Liar

My Harrowing Escape

The Polls Get Stupider

The Brylcreemed Bullshitter

Pseudomancy for the Masses

They Fiddled While Nero Got the Matches

Beat the Crowds

A Fond Reminiscence

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Savage

A Case of Worst Scenarios

Obscene But Not Heard

Let’s Have a Conversation

Queer Weddings at Last

Waiter! The Reality Check, Please

No Stan for the Kurds

Word of the Year for 2003

The Relevance of Art in Times of Crisis

On Getting Stabbed

How Bush Can Still Win

Capture Me, Daddy

It’s an Ill Wind

CIA FU!

How Free Are We?

How to Hate Almost Anybody

Of Dissidents and Dissonance

A Fish Story

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Agenda

Dialysis with Osama

Fear Itself