Tag: 2016 Election
Donald Trump Wins and Claire McCaskill Weeps
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured, History, Politics | 0 |
Sister Boniface: Too self-effacing? A Review
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Oct 29, 2024 | Featured, Manners, TV/Radio | 0 |
The EVs’ Advocates: Fools Rushing In
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 3, 2024 | America, Culture, Featured | 0 |
Rory Stewart’s Broken Britain — A Book Revie...
Posted by Carl C. Curtis | Aug 16, 2024 | Books, Featured, Politics | 0 |
The EVs’ Advocates: Fools Rushing In
by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 3, 2024 | America, Culture, Featured | 0 |
Electric vehicles (aka EVs) appear more and more frequently on our street and highways. How...
Read MoreRory Stewart’s Broken Britain — A Book Review
by Carl C. Curtis | Aug 16, 2024 | Books, Featured, Politics | 0 |
Rory Stewart stands out as one of the most interesting authors of recent times, in part due to the...
Read MoreWhat Is to Be Done? — On the Resemblance of Our Political Parties
by Carl C. Curtis | Jul 30, 2024 | Books, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Politics | 0 |
Nikolay Chernyshevsky’s novel What is to Be Done? saw the light of day in 1862. A utopian...
Read MoreVictor Davis Hanson’s Stern Warning: It can happen here.
In 1818, Shelley wrote “Ozymandias” about the Egyptian pharaoh (Ramesses II) who, as the poet has...
Read MoreThe “Bridgerton Effect” Takes Affect
by Carl C. Curtis | Jun 13, 2024 | Aesthetics, Featured, Manners, Movies | 0 |
Simon Webb, historian, novelist, journalist, and producer of the YouTube channel “History...
Read MoreTale of an Unlikely Hero: Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office
In 2003, Alan Bates, a sub-postmaster in Wales, had his contract terminated due to repeated...
Read MoreAlice & Jack: This can’t be love! Or can it? — A Review
by Carl C. Curtis | May 1, 2024 | Culture, Featured, TV/Radio | 0 |
Alice & Jack, a six-part drama that recently ended on PBS’s Masterpiece, certainly qualifies...
Read MoreThe Point of Contact: Transcendence and Immanence: A Lecture
by Deal Hudson | Apr 30, 2024 | Aesthetics, Art, Culture, Featured, Movies, Music | 0 |
To the reader: When I gave this lecture, I ended up reading only a few parts. I told illustrative...
Read MoreCabrini: A Matter of Emphasis — A Film Review
by Carl C. Curtis | Mar 29, 2024 | Featured, Movies, Saints | 0 |
Many Roman Catholics will know of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (Frances Saverio Cabrini), the...
Read MoreBernard Cornwell: Master of Historical Fiction
Bernard Cornwell will certainly never win the Nobel Prize in Literature. As he has admitted, he’s...
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