“Conspiracy” – A Film About Men and Laws
As I heard Judge Neil Gorsuch last week during the hearings on his suitability for the Supreme Court, repeatedly assert that …
Monthly Archives: March 2017
James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a …
Movies: Documenting the Black Experience
Two documentary films from 2016 have made important splashes in the sea of movies available this year, not as big …
Anatomy of Fascism
The bibliographic essay at the end of Robert O Paxton’s Anatomy of Fascism is some 27 pages long. At about …
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging — by Sebastian Junger
Although the word tribe has long been used in a more-or-less neutral way for a certain type of social organization, tribalism has lately …
Translation: What Goes Missing in Love
As an excursion away from politics and the mysteries of man’s love-affairs with war I picked up an old classic, …
The Populist Explosion by John Judis
The word “populism” has re-entered the American vocabulary with more force than since it first made an appearance in the …
Two Cultures, Two Loves and the Anvil of Tradition
Two compelling films from remote corners of the earth, one of them nominated for an Oscar, are recently available to …