The term “woke” has acquired wide currency. According to Google, it means: “awareness of issues that concern social justice and racial justice”. Surprisingly, it seems that people on all sides of the culture war have a similar understanding of “woke”. … Read More ›
Culture
What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?
The title above is actually the name of a 1968 film starring Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard. In this film the two actors, who usually play straight-arrow types, are weirdly cast as a beatnik/hippie artist couple living in sin… Read More ›
Idealism in the Movies – Where Did it Go?
After watching some of the latest streaming shows, I began to wonder why almost every new streaming movie (especially Netflix) seems to feature a cast of flawed characters performing morally dubious acts. Then, over the holidays, I watched in succession… Read More ›
Western Civilization
Here we are in 2020 trying to decide whether to tear down statues of dead white men and whether people should be prosecuted for setting fire to local businesses. How did we get here, anyway? I believe that where we… Read More ›