THE MOST FRIGHTENING PANDEMIC NUMBER OF ALLThe New York Times wants you to read David Brooks today. Read — or listen- to this instead.Apr 24, 2020Apr 24, 2020
AUSCHWITZ: THE NEW PILGRIM’S TALEWhat is the process by which an historical event becomes sacred and incorporated into religious practice? Does that process even exist in…Jan 23, 2020Jan 23, 2020
CONFUSED ABOUT KURDS/TURKEY/SYRIA/U.S.? LET ME TRY & UNCONFUSE YOU.Donald Trump, Jan. 2016: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Trump, Oct 2019: I…Oct 14, 2019Oct 14, 2019
THE MEANING OF SAMThere was a time when films were not just content/product and film criticism wasn’t an adjunct of the advertising and marketing wing of…Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019
SIDNEY LUMET & THE CRISIS OF LIBERALISMThere was a time when films were not just content or product and film criticism wasn’t an adjunct of the advertising and marketing wing of…Sep 23, 20191Sep 23, 20191
INTERROGATING HENRYThis is a chapter from my unfinished novel, Suicide Notes/Acceptance Speeches ©. It is a one-act play written by the novel’s protagonist…Feb 25, 2019Feb 25, 2019
THE BOOKS I’VE WRITTEN & THE BOOKS I WILL NEVER WRITETen years ago today I submitted the manuscript for Emancipation. If you had told me on that day I would never be commissioned to write…Feb 6, 2019Feb 6, 2019
FRDH: BIBLE STUDY FOR ATHEISTSSHARE THIS: JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED, ROY MOORE, BLASPHEMERNov 12, 2017Nov 12, 2017