Next year, the Oscar winning film for 1999 will be 20 years from its release date. “American Beauty”, the suburban opus directed by Sam Mendes, swept many of the big categories that year including Best Picture, Best Actor (Kevin Spacey), Best Actress (Annette Bening), Best Screenplay (Alan Ball), and a couple of others. At the … More Sunday at the Movies: American Beauty
A new video series that connects the future to the past via the present, beginning with a recent pronouncement by the NAACP that it isn’t safe for black Americans to travel to Florida. … More The NAACP Boycott of Florida
The long Indian Wars were the first to create PTSD for American soldiers, and for the same reason other twilight wars harmed their minds as well as bodies. … More Sunday Morning at the Movies: Hostiles
When modernity becomes the dominate culture, the natives are often left behind, and their lives are violent and disordered, even in New Zealand … More Sunday Morning At the Movies: Once Were Warriors
Dan Carlin’s deep dive on the Atlantic Slave trade … More Yellow Bananas, Green Bananas
Grotesque parodies of women by men should be as shameful as the minstrel shows of old … More Mocking Women in Pinkface
Is cultural, rather than literal, Christianity enough to keep Christian civilization alive? … More Is Cultural Christianity Enough?
Leaving aside Covid, vaccines are a key element to a healthcare routine. … More Surviving Medicine Part 7: The Real Science of Vaccination
These phrases are dangerous and you must understand them or they will be used to harm you … More Surviving Medicine Part 6: Vital Signs, Evidence Based, and Standard of Care
Many men identify with Tyler Durden, and his struggles are our own. Making peace with him is essential. … More Sunday Morning at the Movies: Fight Club
