Widower's Tango

On Memorial Day I went to the American Cemetery on former Clark Air Base in the Philippines. It was the worst day to go. It was crowded with...

It pleases me hugely to see the American Labor movement reborn since the pandemic. In solidarity with the ongoing strike of the Writers Guil...

Further along in Saul Bellow's novel More Die of Heartbreak , the narrator Kenneth Trachtenberg's Uncle Benn Crader is suddenly bese...

Now that our Supreme Court gas been exposed as a dark money-making enterprise, with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Roberts accused of ethics vi...

"A story from the Spanish Revolution" is the subtitle of Ken Loach's seemingly quixotic film Land and Freedom . The conflict o...

Flag of the Lincoln Battalion I had a chance last week to watch Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom . My review of the film is forthc...

Ted Gioia Ted Gioia (pronounced Joyah ) is an interesting man. I first encountered him in a YouTube video talking about the grim future of m...