When I was a child, I remember thinking that being grown-up was a destination or a finish line to cross. Now, after graduating college, getting … Read More ›
In 1977, right between the release of Jaws and E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Steven Spielberg made Close Encounters of the Third Kind. While by no means … Read More ›
First published in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby shares Nick Carraway’s reflections on the summer and fall of 1922 …
In a world of online purchases, a real brick-and-mortar bookstore is a refreshing throwback, especially for those of us who like to inspect a thing … Read More ›
The phrase began in 1935. Politicians and pundits from both sides of the political spectrum, but mostly the left, claim that they are on the “right side of history.” Washington Governor Jay Inslee, conservative writer Ben Shapiro, and former President Barack Obama are just three of many who have belabored the phrase. After studying history for almost sixty years and teaching it for forty-four, this phrase makes me want to scream, “History has no side!” History is simply the factual story of what happened and its cause and effect.
That last line about “Liberalism” in particular deserves some pondering. Indeed, pillorying liberalism—in its more classical sense as per Screwtape—and its socio-cultural conventions have become fashionable for elites on all sides. Entire books have appeared on the subject. In most places, the loudest voices have been pontificating that a more fulsome, energetic politics is needed to revolutionize the thin gruel of the status quo.
At first, the opening of Interstellar seems to set the tone for the rest of the film, one of high-minded idealism about NASA, outer space …
Aficionados of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels will be aware that black tie (tuxedo for our American cousins) was considered for most of the twentieth century … Read More ›
“I believe that poetry is an action, ephemeral or solemn, in which there enter as equal partners solitude and solidarity, emotion and action, the nearness … Read More ›