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Chipotle and Food Fadism
It seems your local Chipotle is potentially a dangerous place to eat. If you’ve ever been to one, you know they market themselves as on the cutting edge of fads in organic and locally grown...
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“Russell Kirk: American Conservative” by Bradley J. Birzer
Russell Kirk was one of the leading thinkers of the post-Second World War American conservative movement. His most famous work, The Conservative Mind is still in print along with some others. Bradley...
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Racialized Islam & The Racial-Industrial-Complex
The following is part I in a conversation with Jack Kerwick, author of “The American Offensive: Dispatches From The Front.” Jack received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University. A lifelong...
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On Black Crime, Obama’s ‘Blackism’& Burke’s Allergy To Neocons
The following is Part II in a conversation with Jack Kerwick, author of “The American Offensive: Dispatches From The Front.” Read Part I, “Black Muslims & the Racial-Industrial Complex.” Visit...
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Two Amusing One Act Plays
The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC is staging two one-act comedies at its Lansburgh Theatre, written about two centuries apart. Artistic Director Michael Kahn directs both. Tom...
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Ranchers Hammond And Bundy: The Best Of America
America, as one wag put it, is a “post-constitutional” country. Even worse, a plurality of Americans have now turned, en masse, against the First Principles of its founding. The organizing principle...
View ArticleMaybe Bowie is Looking Down from Heaven
Since Father Time took the great David Bowie, I have read numerous speculations about what might have been the state of his soul. Bowie, the consummate showman and actor, was a very private man,...
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Trump’s Invisible, Poor White Army’s Waiting On The Ropes
Donald Trump’s mortal enemies in mainstream politics and media have shifted strategy. In the ramp-up to the Iowa, February 1, Caucasus, the culprits have been pushing presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz...
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If Hillary Clinton is Elected We Will Officially Have a Liar In Chief As Our...
My son and I just got back from watching 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The film takes place on September 10-12, 2012, with the majority of the action taking place on the anniversary of...
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Modern Education Succeeding in Educating Our Youth Out of Their Inheritance
The lament about American education, both its K-12 and higher variety, comes in for its fair share of criticism, much of it deserved. But what most critics don’t criticize it for is its success....
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Obama in Che Guevara’s Shadow
President Obama “palled around with terrorists” back the day, as Sarah Palin memorably put it back during the 2008 election. Now our Deal Leader goes to Cuba and gets his picture taken in front of an...
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Where Did All The Rock ‘n’ Roll Go?
If you grew up in the 60s and 70s like I did, you were fortunate to have grown up in the heyday of rock ‘n’ roll. Of course if you grew up in the 80s era of hair bands or the 90s of grunge, you would...
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The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo...
In this play by Scott Carpenter and staged by the Washington Stage Guild, Jefferson, Dickens, and Tolstoy, after their deaths, find themselves, like the characters in Sartre’s No Exit, together in a...
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Rock Star Prince Dead at 57
If your musical decade was the 1980s this is likely a sad day for you. Prince, who exploded into popular musical consciousness in the heyday of MTV, has died. He had been ill recently: Prince was...
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Journey to the West
The Constellation Theatre Company has staged many tales of of mythology and fantasy: The Arabian Nights, The Oresteia, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The Ramayana, Gilgamesh. It is now adding to this list...
View ArticleClassical Education: Hope for America’s Future
About five or six years ago classical education meant as much to me as it probably means to many of you reading this, which isn’t much. About that same time my son started attending a Christian...
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“Phaeton” by Michael Milligan
Phaeton is unusual for a contemporary play for two reasons: it is in verse and it welcomely draws upon Greco-Roman mythology, though altered for the playwright’s own purposes. In the play, Phaeton...
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A.C. Green: Iron Virgin
I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and also raised a passionate L.A. sports fan, which included the Lakers. The 1980s was pretty much as close as one can get to professional basketball...
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Movie Machinations
The Great Game (Le grand jeu), directed by Nicolas Pariser, is a French thriller, that relates the political struggle of Joseph Paskin (Andre Dussollier) against the Minister of the Interior. The...
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“Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections” by Stephen...
Boston University Professor Prothero’s history of culture wars in the U.S. is both informative and tendentious. He defines culture war as a fight for tolerance and inclusion on the part of the left...
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