Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Military
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Great Britain
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 20, 2026Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 20, 2026His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
June 19, 2026‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 19, 2026Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
June 19, 2026Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Fiction Reviews
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
June 18, 2026If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
Espionage
Comrade J by Pete Earley
June 18, 2026It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
June 18, 2026"In waking we tend to think The Dream vanishes, evaporates in daylight like morning dew on...
Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
June 18, 2026It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
June 18, 2026In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
June 17, 2026I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
Politics
Liberal Fascism? Jonah Goldberg Explains
June 17, 2026"If I had to pick a single overall theme in the book, I would say it’s...
Health and Wellness
7 Hacks You Can Do to Get & Stay Motivated to Lose Weight
June 17, 2026How to Get Motivated to Lose Weight in 2019 7 Hacks You Can Do to Get...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Common Secret by Susan Wicklund
June 17, 2026Her home was invaded in her absence. Both muddy boot prints and anti-abortion pamphlets were left...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Four Shipwrecked Castaways Cross Sixteenth Century America
June 16, 2026"But at that point most of the expeditionaries perished as a result of Indian attacks, illness,...
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Fiction Reviews
True Grandeur is a Hollywood Novel for the 21st Century.
June 16, 2026True Grandeur, written by Hollywood actor, writer, and filmmaker Cal R. Barnes, has generated near-universal acclaim...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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