Our culture likes to flatter itself on its broadminded, rational, even scientific approach to the issues of our times. Many are proud to have put the “voodoo of religious faith”, and everything that can’t be […]
Some films are unremittingly cheerful, and some are unremittingly dark. I prefer films that combine grit/darkness with virtue, even fragile virtue…not easy to pull off without the viewer having the sense of a manipulative deus […]
An arbiter, derived from the Latin for judge, is defined as “one chosen to judge or decide a disputed issue”; also, “one who has the power to judge at will”. Many insist that an arbiter […]
The Chinese dragon is not red, or green, or gold. It is iridescent, representing the expedient image that China’s leaders desire to present to the world, to entice or intimidate, to lure or frighten. Slow […]
Ad Finem Fidelis…faithful to the end. Well, not exactly. These words are inscribed on Gatsby’s mansion gate and are laden with irony in relation to this film. When a film is made of a great […]
When modern mystery readers ponder the genesis of the genre, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie come to mind. All-but forgotten are S. S. Van Dine, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. D. Carr, Earl derr Biggers, […]
“Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it […]
There’s an apocryphal story about a frog in a pan of water in which the temperature is gradually increased. The frog, not sensing the danger, is boiled before it leaps to freedom. There’s also the […]
There are frequent debates about what constitutes great literature, and no little disputation. Today, the prevailing and authoritative view combines an ideological filter with anthropological filter to separate “important” literature from the herd of common […]
In his February 21, 2013 article in The Wall Street Journal, “The Assassin at the Door”, Lars Hedegaard describes how he barely escaped assassination for his public criticism of radical Islam, and attempts to impose Sharia Law […]
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