The 2005 Mainstream Movie Awards
Hollywood’s picks for the Oscars this year demonstrate the industry’s utter disdain for the viewing public. Of the twelve films nominated in the top categories …
Hollywood’s picks for the Oscars this year demonstrate the industry’s utter disdain for the viewing public. Of the twelve films nominated in the top categories …
The world’s foremost financial guru, Peter Drucker, died on Veterans’ Day, Nov. II, 2005, at the age of 94. I interviewed Drucker for Forbes in …
I cannot remember how or why I came across it in graduate school, but I consider David Hackett Fischer’s extraordinary “Historians’ Fallacies” one of my …
Most of the earth’s land is under the control of governments. Most of the ocean is not. The majority of the area of the globe …
Director Peter Jackson was just 9 years old when he saw Merian Cooper’s 1933 “King Kong” on television in his native New Zealand. Fascinated by …
Of all the great movements in modern art, none was more essentially libertarian than Dada, most of whose founders were young men escaping from conscription …
Several years ago, while attending a bat mitzvah with my daughter, I noticed a large ornate altarpiece on the wall behind the pulpit. It proclaimed: …
Were the giants of the Gilded Age – John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan – pious frauds who exploited and bilked …
“Syriana” is about big government and big business and oil deals and terrorism. It’s about spies and counter-spies and loyalty and betrayal. It’s about suicide …
When you get right down to it, the United States is rapidly becoming just another country that doesn’t represent anything more than a color on …