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Category: Satire

Chomsky: Coda of a Lifelong Shill

Jonathan Revusky

“There are true stories that never happened.” Elie Wiesel (MIT professor emeritus Dr. Noam Chomsky receives a visit, from two gentlemen in black. The interaction begins politely enough…) Good afternoon, gentlemen. (A few more pleasantries follow…) Look, guys, I told you I was through with this…” I know, but we really need your help on this. So what do you want me to come out and say this time? That pigs can fly? (Laughter.) Oh, it’s not quite that extreme. (One of the men in black hands Chomsky a sheet of paper that he quickly skims.) Holy fuck! Jesus Christ! Who the hell is going to buy this shit??!! C’mon, Noam, you know better than anybody that the Goyim will…

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Welcome to Terra Prime

Jonathan Revusky

The man who has no imagination has no wings.    Muhammad Ali As a child, I was a huge Star Trek fan. Even now, some of the shows have stuck in my mind. I recall one episode in which the Enterprise happens on an alternate planet Earth, at a twentieth century level of development, in which the Roman Empire never fell. This may well have been my first exposure to the genre of counterfactual historical fiction. I have long thought that, if I ever did have the follow-through to write a novel, it would surely be in this vein. The possibilities are endless, after all. Just imagine an alternate timeline in which the American War of Independence had been unsuccessful.…

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