I've just reread "The Ebony Stick," a novella by Earl Derr Biggers, who is best known for the Charlie Chan bo...

I've been watching Charles Bronson movies lately. I have no explanation for this extraordinary activity, ...

Who is this Bill Nye guy anyway? I only became aware of him recently, but it seems he's a popular "science...

By Thomas Sipos In George Orwell's 1984, each edition of the Newspeak Dictionary was thinner than the one b...

On this day in 1966, Time Magazine published its (in)famous cover story, "Is God Dead?"  It was about some ...

Two tragic losses today: the deaths of the great comedian Don Rickles and the music lyricist and producer Paul...

As I was reading Fred Siegel's book I kept thinking how hopeless I felt (politically and culturally speaki...

President Trump's speech before Congress last night was highly interesting from a rhetorical and str...

Darwinists are fond of saying that evolution is a "fact." Maybe, but facts are not self-explanatory. Most ...

With the help of Vice-President Mike Pence, the U.S. Senate confirmed education choice advocate Betsy DeVos fo...

Rosalind, daughter of a deposed Duke Senior (Allen McCollough) is finally exiled by her uncle, Duke Frede...

    Though the paintings in our small town’s only art museum seldom rose above the level...

Jane Austen's first novel,"Sense and Sensibility,"  follows the romantic lives of two sisters of markedly...

I have recently seen again  the late Robert Bresson's penultimate film "Le diable probablement" (The Devi...

I cannot remember when I first saw an Eric Rohmer film nor which one it was.  Over time, though, I have s...

I had Marvel's Daredevil on my Netflix watch list for a long time, but for some reason didn't pull the tri...

Race and faith in America have a checkered past; specifically the Christian faith. Many conservative Chris...

In case you haven't heard, a new power trio just released their eponymous first CD: The Fringe. The band c...

This latest Woody Allen flick is sort of an anthology of many of his themes and preoccupations:  a comica...

I woke up to this headline this morning: "Suspected Islamic extremist shoots dead at least 20 dead at Flo...

Aaron Posner's new play--currently being performed at the Folger Shakespeare Library--takes a central plot...

Boston University Professor Prothero's history of culture wars in the U.S. is both informative and tendent...

The Great Game (Le grand jeu), directed by Nicolas Pariser, is a French thriller, that relates the politi...

I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area, and also raised a passionate L.A. sports fan, which include...

Phaeton  is unusual for a contemporary play for two reasons:  it is in verse and it welcomely draws upo...

About five or six years ago classical education meant as much to me as it probably means to many of you re...

The  Constellation Theatre Company has staged many tales of of mythology and fantasy:  The Arabian Night...

If your musical decade was the 1980s this is likely a sad day for you. Prince, who exploded into popular m...

In this play by Scott Carpenter and staged by the Washington Stage Guild, Jefferson, Dickens, and Tolstoy,...

If you grew up in the 60s and 70s like I did, you were fortunate to have grown up in the heyday of rock 'n...

President Obama "palled around with terrorists" back the day, as Sarah Palin memorably put it back during ...

The lament about American education, both its K-12 and higher variety, comes in for its fair share of crit...

Before you think I call people names, this comes from the title of a piece about smart people who just don...