Violence Begets Violence: Making Sense of the Dark Knight Massacre
“In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.” ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams…
Author: John W. Whitehead
When the World Stopped to Listen by John W. Whitehead
“I declare that the Beatles are mutants, prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to…
Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan: An Interview with David Dalton
“Like Bob Dylan, the authentic American genius is a synthetic personality. They’re all hybrids, hence, inevitably, charlatans. It’s the chameleon…
Blade Runner: What It Means to Be Human in the Cybernetic State
“We’re not computers, Sebastian. We’re physical.”—Roy Batty Thirty years ago right around this time, Ridley Scott was wrapping up production…
Impressions: People I Knew: An Interview with Nat Hentoff by John W. Whitehead
Conversing with Nat Hentoff produces feelings of sincere admiration coupled with deep yet light-hearted envy. Aside from being a prolific…
The Horror! The Horror! Must-See War Films by John W. Whitehead
“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would…
America’s Longest Ongoing War: The ‘Race’ War on Drugs by John W. Whitehead
“The drug war is not to protect the children, save the babies, shield the neighborhoods, or preserve the rain forests.…
The Christmas Hope: A To-Do List for a Better World
“The Christmas hope for peace and good will toward all men can no longer be dismissed as a kind of…
Have a Very Merry Celluloid Christmas
When I was a child in the 1950s, Christmas glowed. My parents didn’t have much money to spend at Christmastime,…
Speak Out: America Is a Free Speech Forum
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition…