kevin-james

Kevin James Was America’s Everyman. Then America Changed Its Mind

For more than two decades, the ‘King of Queens’ and ‘Paul Blart’ star has represented the quintessential average Joe. But in recent years, his stalled career seems to be as much about his creative choices as a shift in our culture’s interest in whose stories get told

Kevin James Is No Longer the Everyman

The ‘relatable’ comic seems afraid to embrace what life is really like as a working-class white guy today

A Marxist Analysis of ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop’

Kevin James’ everyman hero is just a tool for an inequitable system of labor and capital