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Culture Archive
Real True Grit
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 2 Comments“Well, there is no beat of a good friend.” –Deputy Marshal Rooster Cogburn, in the novel, True Grit. “He is not my friend.” –Young Mattie Ross, speaking of Rooster Cogburn,...
Conservative Lies About Human Nature
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 5 CommentsSince World War II, America’s elite policy makers have arranged and re-arranged our political and economic relationships around an empirically false – radically false – understanding of human being and...
AC360 digs into the dark world of “reparative therapy” in “The Sissy Boy Experiment”
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsHow hard is it to love a 5-year-old child unconditionally, or a child of any age for that matter? If you believe God created each of us, how do you...
Towering Humanity: Turk Pipkin’s Building Hope
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 CommentDisabuse any inkling that Building Hope is cinematic broccoli. It’s a majestic and transformative entertainment and this documentary packs more emotional connectedness, stark naked compassion, unyielding gumption, and inspirational heft than a GooGooplex full of Hollywood fiction.
Out of Order Chaps 3 and 4
Posted on May 20, 2011 | No CommentsOut of Order Chaps 3,4Out of Order Chaps 1 and 2
Posted on May 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsOut of Order
Read This And You Will Become Smart And Go To Heaven
Posted on April 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsDictators often come wrapped in lofty literary pretensions, it seems. And you thought the novel was dead. Suzanne Murkelson has a terrific piece in Foreign Policy about the literary lives...
Fainting Goats
Posted on April 1, 2011 | 1 CommentBack in 1960 my parents bought 200 acres of Williamson County ranch land near Georgetown. It was a rugged but beautiful piece of real estate crossed by limestone ridges, dotted with ancient live oaks and bordered by...
Animal Kingdom
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsI had never heard of the Australian gem and terror of a film Animal Kingdom until Jacki Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her sweetly...
The Mick Hits Two
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsDuring the summer of 1961, Mantle and his Yankee team- mate and room-mate, Roger Maris, each threatened to break Babe Ruth’s seemingly unbreakable 1927 record of 60 home runs. As the summer progressed, nothing else in sports seemed to matter. While all that was going on, I was hitch-hiking up the eastern seaboard with a friend named Gentry Lee.