So you feel worn-out by the never-ending “peace process” involving two ethno-religious communities and their competing claims over a disputed territory. And you are not surprised to learn that the latest round of peace processing has ground to a halt. But never give up hope—President ...
Suggesting that movie director Woody Allen, who has abandoned the Big Apple and is residing in Europe now, has been transformed from a New York Liberal into a Continental Conservative would certainly sound like a stretch. But after watching his 2005 Match Point, in which the main character is a ...
We"re all familiar with this cliché-ridden story line. A successful husband dumps his middle-aged and supposedly feeble wife for a younger woman. The estranged wife's friends are worried that after so many years of being dependent on her spouse, she won"t be able to make it in the real ...
counter-factual scenarios are very intriguing, history doesn"t flow in some linear fashion that leads from X to Y, and that assumes that if only we had taken this road as opposed to that road, we would have reached our destiny. The benefits of a realist perspective in foreign policy is that is ...
I"m not a great fan of Adam Sandler who always seems to be doing an impersonation of Jerry Lewis, whose shtick as a juvenile retard I had enjoyed until about the age of...mm...six? I saw Sandler last time in "50 First Dates, a movie that I actually liked (it's a less sophisticated and ...
I love politics and movies. So it's probably not surprising that I enjoy political documentaries, like Errol Morris‘s "The Fog of War", a portrait of one of the leading architects of the Vietnam War, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The film which won the Academy Award for ...
Indiana Jones was born in 1899 which would make him 102-year old on September 11, 2001 and which explains why he couldn"t be taking part in the war against Islamo-Fascism in 2008 in the new "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" that was released last week. And that's ...
As someone who wasted a few years of his life teaching in undistinguished academic institutions, I could never figure out why Hollywood would bother making movies about college professors and why anyone would want to spend his time or money watching for two hours a disheveled and grumpy middle aged ...
During the height of the globalization age in the late 1990s, many leading Zeitgeist watchers were celebrating the rise of the "New Cosmopolitans," a term coined by business reporter G. Pascal Zachary. A new civilization was being born out of the increasing flow of money, products, ideas, ...
