The Sorrow and the Pity (aka Trump’s First 100 Days)
In Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning 1977 film, Annie, played by Dianne Keaton, and Alvy, played by Allen, go to see The Sorrow and the Pity, the critically acclaimed documentary about the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, i.e., why some people collaborated while others resisted. When they come out of the theater, […]
Jason Aldean (“Try That in a Small Town”)
As Washington Post columnist Paul Weldon correctly put it last week, “Aldean’s latest single, “Try That in a Small Town” — is an exercise in belligerent rural hostility, and it will almost certainly make him the right’s latest hero who was “canceled” for speaking the truth. Don’t be surprised if Republican presidential candidates start playing the […]
Trump Reveals Character
It’s been said that the presidency doesn’t build character, it reveals it. There’s never been a more dangerous example than Donald Trump, whose four years in office revealed a dangerously narcissistic, potentially authoritarian, megalomaniac, a man content to destroy American democracy for his own aggrandizement (along with desperation to avoid prison). Fortunately the country dodged […]