Isaac Butler

Bylines

The Amazing, Disappearing Johnny Carson

Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.

by Isaac Butler via The New Yorker
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on November 6, 2024
‘Eight Loving Arms and All Those Suckers.’

How Angels in America put Roy Cohn into the definitive story of AIDS.

by Dan Kois, Isaac Butler via Vulture
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on February 7, 2018

Book

The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars

Isaac Butler

2026

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Podcast

Death on the Lot

Don’t Change That Channel

As post war Hollywood strives to define itself, it mirrors the divide happening in America. A rising right wing seeks to create conformity and fear, while a left wing fights for Civil Rights and a more equitable future.

June 1, 2023

Protest outside of Hamilton Country courthouse in downtown Cincinnati, April 6, 1990

When America’s Culture Wars Were Fought in Art Galleries

Late 20th-century culture wars over artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano set the stage for the transgressive Age of Trump.

by David Masciotra via Washington Monthly on June 23, 2026

Isaac Butler

Bylines

The Amazing, Disappearing Johnny Carson

‘Eight Loving Arms and All Those Suckers.’

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