I could pick a better century out of a hat

I'm in the University Bookman, with an essay I posted here but revised & improved...

Perhaps the most famous statement in the American history of eugenics is Supreme Court Justice...

[my apologies, I've removed this post as I work on it for publication]

at FareForward: In 2005 a Czech novelist writes a book, one of the rare Czech...

reviewin': ...It’s easy to read artists—and maybe especially black artists—as mere reporters. Or, worse, sociologists....

What I've been watching. Mr Skeffington: Two and a half hours of epic Bette Davis....

First, more like this please: For the first time ever, The Church of Jesus Christ...

for AmCon: For the extraordinary 2012 documentary “The Act of Killing“, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer encouraged...

I don't want to be tokenistic but I'm betting the best way to get you...

The title of All Aunt Hagar's Children gives you an idea of one of the...

click: Nicolás Gómez-Dávila’s name is not one to conjure with on these shores or, probably,...

Ooh, this is gonna sting. Via the Rattus.

Russia’s first horror films appeared before the Revolution in 1917 and, unfortunately, did not survive...

Me at AmCon: Don’t call Wilfrid Sheed’s 1963 The Hack a forgotten Catholic classic. I...

reviewing: The first chamber sets up the thesis of “Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since...

They performed an exercise of "company in the attack," became entirely intermixed, extricated themselves and...

for AmCon: Now that the shutdown is over, I can tell you about a small...

(then as farce? I kid, I kid): On this day, June 20, in 1958, FBI...

in AmCon, for those who would like a vivacious little primer on the Profumo affair:...

In these circumstances the "marriage" between Waugh and the army headed for breakdown. He long...

“Everything’s permitted here, you see. I suppose one could say with the theology instructor that...

Last night I rang in the glorious Halloween season by watching the 1966 film The...