This is a slightly revised paper that I presented at the National Meetings of the American Institute of Planners, Atlanta, Georgia 1973, Introduction Probably from the time of the very…
Watching the snarling denizens (I try to avoid the word citizen) of Murietta, California, embarrass my state and my country before the world with their hypocritical Americanism and twisted Christianity…
This is a reprise of my 7.27.2009 posting in honor of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” decision where apparently what people believe–in this case an employer’s beliefs–trumps even a …
I have been building this essay over the past couple of months, returning to it at various points in the recent political cycle. I suppose that before I lose sight…
Elizabeth Samet is a professor of English at West Point, although I am given to wonder for how much longer. By the sheerest coincidence I happened to be reading an…
[This concludes the Cinema China series] Chinese often viewed America as the jin shan, “Gold Mountain,” the name given by the Chinese to western regions of North America, particularly California, but…
Unrepentant ex-Vice President and founder of the social media website for gun lovers, Faceshoot, Dick Cheney, armed with a heart transplant and his five deferments from the Vietnam war, emerged…
Counter-Revolutionary Cinema China seems to live up to the axiom that the only constant is change. 1949 brought a big change indeed; but a political ideology hooked to the notion…
Lost passage from Genesis: Gen 2.0: And God felt that his computer had crashed when the humans he had created from his animation program had gone all crazy killing one…
2014: I used to ask my grad students in my seminars that, if they could time travel, would they prefer going into the future, or the past. Then I would…