In the United States, gun ownership is most often associated with the political right. Indeed, second amendment rights is one issue that social conservatives, libertarians, neoconservatives, and the…
If you are a man who leads, Who controls the affairs of the many, Seek out every beneficent deed, That your conduct may be blameless. Great is…
During the 1992 American presidential campaign, Democratic strategist, James Carville hung a sign in Governor William Jefferson Clinton’s campaign headquarters with three phrases, including the now famous…
“Things were not that simple anymore…” “Postmodernism” is a difficult word, which can mean a lot of things. For French philosopher, Jean-Francois Lyotard, it represents the…
There is a popular Reddit / internet debate about which Indiana Jones film is the best. The bulk of the discussion readily dismisses the latter two films,…
Within scholarly discourse, there is some debate over what to call the period of Western history stretching from the fifteenth to the seventeenth-centuries. The traditional term for…
2023’s Barbie film was a typical postmillennial starburst cultural phenomenon. Upon its advent, it had a tremendous effect on the (especially digital zeitgeist). At the same time,…
This review contains spoilers. The Authoritarian Personality (1950) is one of the most important and influential books of the twentieth century. Among conservatives it is notorious…
In the unhappy 2020s, America is divided in a tug of war between two generations who dominate political and cultural discourse: the Baby Boomers and the Millennials—sadly,…
Victoria Houseman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin River-Falls. She is the author of American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton…
“I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “Postmodernism” is an odd term. Indeed, it is…
Within both academic and lay or popular discussions, Christians often take a seemingly simplistic view of the early medieval period, pitting noble, Christian, Anglo-Saxons and Franks at…
On December 19, 2001, The Fellowship of the Ring opened in US theaters. Like Episode IV: A New Hope, the first film of the original Star Wars…
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is, without question, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. While existentialism and phenomenology as philosophical movements existed prior to Heidegger, his 1927 Being…
Martin Scorsese’s now repeated dismissals of the Avengers movie series have provoked a variety of reactions—some of them very strong. The core of Scorsese’s critique is that…