John Milius, Hollywood Maverick
The lost bridge between the New Hollywood of the '70s and the anti-Communist flicks of the Reagan era
The lost bridge between the New Hollywood of the '70s and the anti-Communist flicks of the Reagan era
Yanking alcohol back out of the black market left America with a wicked Prohibition hangover.
The roots and consequences of a deception.
Storme DeLarverie, RIP
In foreign policy the danger is intervention, not 'isolation'
Once largely derided as shallow, faddish, consumerist music, disco has been reappraised as the stifled sounds of cultural liberation. Of course, it could always be both.
Anyone who has been watching President Obama's response to the Great Recession will realize that policymakers have learned little since the 1930s.
A propaganda film defends the internment of Japanese Americans.
Optimism isn't just an attitude-it's an accurate assessment of how well the human race has fared over the past several centuries.
Democrats and progressives are flat-out wrong about libertarians.
A riveting new book restores "the black tradition of arms" to its proper place in American history.
When the Senate studied video games
Propaganda, games, and the quest for a more 'democratic' media environment.
Our addled Supreme Court justices.
The Equal Protection Clause demands equal treatment for same-sex couples.
No, not some crazy Manchurian Candidate scenario
Sixty years after the Army-McCarthy hearings, we should reexamine some of our accumulated lore about the period.
A talk recorded in Bethesda on April 5.
Some strange old civil defense spots
The 1947 "instructional" film The Powers of Congress
The most right-wing project any Beatle was ever involved with
Republicans check their WWRRD? bracelets.