Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten to Derail the Nation
While it may be months before the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy can be fully resolved, Americans cannot afford to…
Category: Talk
Honey Boo Boo vs. The Bullies: “Redneckognizing” Accountability in Cultural Critique
Let’s be honest: reality television dominates American screens, and almost everyone says it’s the end of Western civilization. If you’ve…
The Seersucker Returneth: Kolchak and Johnny Depp
“Code five, all cars respond,” crackles a voice over the radio. “Homicide suspect on building on intersection of Laramie and…
Who’s Afraid of The Exorcist?
It was so quiet, one of the killers would say later, you could hear the sound of ice rattling in…
Movies and Politics: Truth in Fiction
With Election Day right around the corner, the propaganda machines are busily spinning political webs with which the candidates can…
America’s Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens
For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where…
Pink is the New Green: Soylent Never Goes Out of Style
When the science-fiction film Soylent Green was released in 1973, critics celebrated everything about it except the premise. New York…
John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist
Despite the moving tributes that were paid to John Lennon’s lyrical vision of a world without war, racial or religious…
Human Beings on Paper: Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar
Soul: Just the mayhem. You know what I'm saying, the extra, extra pills. Things like that. People are easily influenced.…
Ready to Give an Answer: An interview with Pat Boone
Born in 1934 and raised in Nashville, Tenn., Pat Boone was an unlikely candidate to be one of rock and…