FWIW

I've written in this space before about my admiration for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders -- formerly, a mostly unknown quantity nation...

Be warned. Watching Waiting for "Superman" is a pretty depressing experience. It left me discouraged about the future of our coun...

(Mild spoilers ahead.) In the twentieth chapter of John's Gospel we see the resurrected Jesus appearing to the disciples as they c...

At its best football is poetry, and at its best writing about football must attempt to translate the untranslatable. This -- the opening pa...

It's been years since I read A Scanner Darkly by the brilliant sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), but something about recent h...

Boyhood is Richard Linklater's magnum opus. There's so much I could say about this film, and I already know it's one I'...

The received wisdom of the day is that one is (or should be) defined by who they are sexually attracted to. If you're attracted to membe...

A quiet hour with some writings of G.K. Chesterton in one hand, and a glass of ale in the other, is one of life's exquisite pleasures....

Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955) is a film admired by many of the greats of contemporary cinema. For example Martin Scorses...

After the gut-wrenching 2-2 World Cup match between the USA and Portugal a couple weeks back a friend posted on Facebook: " Soccer is t...