

Michael Ventura
- May 14, 2018
- 9 min
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, 2018
- 7 min
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, 2018
- 16 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 5 min
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, 2017
- 8 min
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, 2017
- 9 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 6 min
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:...