Trumbo (Movie Review)

Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976)
Read More“Trumbo” reminds us that tyranny doesn’t produce any heroes or villains. There are only victims.
Nobody wins. Everybody loses.

Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976)
Read More“Trumbo” reminds us that tyranny doesn’t produce any heroes or villains. There are only victims.
Nobody wins. Everybody loses.

Read More“Bridge of Spies” is far from a movie masterpiece. Yet, it’s true to historical events. Moreover, there’s a critically important message here entirely consistent with Spielberg’s legacy as a noble filmmaker and master of historical recreation, that patriotism can mean doing things that unpopular. That’s something to ponder now, just as much as back then.

Read MoreDo shrinking and therefore dividing news sources sabotage our common understanding of reality and impede compromise? Might this spell the end of democracy?

Here’s what American conservatives once supported.
The super-rich never had it so good. At least not since the late 19th Century, a reprehensible period in American history known as the Gilded Age when wealthy robber barons in mansions and plantations treated the working class like farm animals, and the government did next to nothing to help common people. In other words, unbridled capitalism and conservatism at its unapologetic worst.
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