The Private Life is Dead Remember the Bolshevik Strelnikov in the film classic, “Dr Zhivago” (1965)? Played by Tom Courtenay, he was a young intellectual communist who had turned into a Red military commander in the civil war that followed…
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Class, Political Class, de class, and No Class, a Primer on the Democrat Left
If you haven’t noticed, our war with the Left has taken a turn for the better. So, in keeping with my general opinion that ideologies that are counter to our constitutional understanding of freedom should be sent packing as unceremoniously…
Shakespeare in Love, a Reflection on Class, circa 1998
I saw “Shakespeare in Love” last night for the first time since I saw it in a theater in Cincinnati in 1998. The film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, as well as a Best Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow) and…