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Westerns Episode 8: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
A singular movie among John Ford’s work, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance showcases the American West and questions narratives about heroes, politics, and America itself.Homework for next episode will be to watch Howard Hawks’ El Dorado.
How the Panicked Response to 9/11 Caused Our Current Crisis – and the Possible Collapse of America
The dumb Republicans of 22 years ago didn’t heed our warning of making sure we didn’t devolve further into a full-blown police state. They didn’t see how the federal police agencies, at the time run by moderate Republicans, easily could be weaponized by liberal Democrats.
It’s Too Late To Say You’re Sorry
One year ago, Eric Adams, mayor of New York, welcomed the first busload of illegal immigrants to the Big Apple. One year later he is crying in his cider:
Low-trajectory Aspirations
After the fall, we each have a predominate fault driven by physiology rather than merely psychology or external circumstances. The modern personality tests only weakly address this
Wednesday’s Child: Arcadian Blues
“Today I harvested honey,” a reader has written apropos of last week’s post, and naturally I envied him the instant I read it. As an adult I always lived in and was drawn to cities, as this chimed in with my nostalgia for civilization on the wane, but the bucolic, which I had richly experienced as a child, ever beckoned the prodigal to return. Civilization is temporal, like our life itself. Nature is like our afterlife, eternally kind to some and eternally brutal to others.
Westerns Episode 7: Yojimbo (1961)
This next group of Westerns, from the 1960-1990 time period, starts with a perhaps unexpected entry: Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Yojimbo, a film in dialogue with, and a major influence on, the Western genre.
Grand Old Peace Party: Trump, Vivek Lead the Way
We finally have a Peace Party. And it’s the Grand Old Party, the Republicans. Now the Grand Old Peace Party – GOPP.
Nothing Can Stop the Trumpster!!!
You better watch out for the big-haired eggplant that ate Chicago. He might just eat your city too.
Rights of Slaves, Slaves of Rights II: The Right to be Reeducated
Where in the world did people get the idea that children have the right to a free education provided by the state?
