Every year at about this time, movie-goers are bombarded with ads promoting supposed Oscar-worthy films.  At least a dozen are now getting significant attention in the press as possible nominees for the major awards.  It’s enough to make a person seeking an evening’s entertainment at a movie theater wonder how to choose, especially with […]

            “Who poses the real threat to America at this moment in our history?  Is it Iraq, boxed in by inspections and the microscopic attention that the world community has fixed on it?  Not likely.  Colin Powell’s slick U.N. presentation notwithstanding, Saddam is very much a paper tiger at this point.” -Excerpt from “Iraq: the […]

            With the end of another year, we are again called upon to provide our ranking of the best artistic performances of the last twelve months.  It is a task to be undertaken cautiously and with great humility, as all critical impressions are completely subjective.  One person’s music may well be another’s noise.             That […]

            Time magazine had it partially right when it named “the protester” its person of the year.  The image of an Arab woman on the issue’s cover suggested an emphasis on the Arab spring movements that have toppled several autocratic regimes and threaten several others.             But closer to home, indeed, at home, the protesters […]