I won’t push the disingenuous notion that we all need to accept and empathize with synthetic victim-hoods and bigoted, outrageous rhetoric. However, an understanding must be achieved purely to combat ...
“‘So much sordidness,’ agrees Arthur, relapsing into his chair. ‘It quite saps a fellow.’”What fatigues Arthur proves to be of sheer delight for readers. With no disregard for the novel’s considerable ...
Since TOMS launched in 2006, “buy one, give one” or “one for one” companies have become a major trend in the corporate social responsibility movement. Countless companies now subscribe to the belief ...
Ten years after the fall of Baghdad at the hands of US forces, rumors of a breach in the Iraqi military command that facilitated the invasion continue to swirl. Some analysts trace the problem back to ...
Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today ...
How a silent film featuring an all-Native American cast came to be made, lost (seemingly forever), discovered nearly a century later (in shambles), then restored and shown to the cast’s descendants is ...
In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...
California ranked just ahead of Texas, which finished in 42nd place. New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts earned the highest rankings, while Nevada, Mississippi, and New Mexico ranked lowest. The ...