January 2015

The reluctance that Hollywood showed in making Vietnam movies in the immediate wake of that war does not seem to have carried over to the Iraq War. There are probably many reasons for this but I think the biggest one is that there is no longer a draft and most people don’t know anyone involved…

Martin Luther King is one of those historical figures that seem to transcend their own humanity, in that it is hard to think of him as a human being with frailties and faults. We are so used to revering him as an icon on the same level as Lincoln or Washington that we ignore his…