Monday, April 29, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Citizen Hearst” (American Experience)

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An anecdote about the movie “Citizen Kane” (made by Orson Welles in 1941) In 1941, Orson Welles released a film called “Citizen Kane,” whi...
Friday, April 26, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of Shakespeare”

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He had more influence upon the  English language  than any other individual – perhaps even more than the Biblical translator William Tyndale...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

What fascism is (and why it stinks)

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Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

A review of PBS’s “The Great San Francisco Earthquake”

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The worst natural disaster suffered by a North American city in the twentieth century … In 1906, San Francisco was hit by one of the worst n...
Friday, April 12, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Breaking the Maya Code”

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Deciphering the Maya glyphs opened up an entire world to historians … Deciphering the Maya glyphs opened up an entire world to historians . ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People”

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The “Pulitzer Prize” was named after the great newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer … In 1917, six years after the death of Joseph Pulitzer, the...
Friday, April 5, 2024

A review of Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan” (audiobook)

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In the seventeenth century , Thomas Hobbes gave the most powerful argument ever written for the necessity of some form of government. His o...