Category Archives: Traditional American Culture
What Louis Michael Seidman Made Me Think About
An opinion piece in the December 30th New York Times by Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law, caught my eye. Seidman, or the Times’ headline writer, entitled it “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution. This quote will convey a sense of its direction: As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, [...]
Those Awful 1950s
The Product Pleasantville is a 1998 film directed by Gary Ross (Big, The Hunger Games) and produced by him, Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotapes, Contagion), Jon Kilik, and Bob Degus. High school siblings David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) have diametrically opposite social lives. Jennifer is superficial and extroverted; David is shy and [...]
Remembering Andy Griffith (1926-2012)
Like many middle-aged white adults, the news of Andy Griffith’s death yesterday brought back memories of my youth. Such somber reflection is quite depressing considering how much our country has changed in such a short amount of time. Thirty-five and forty years ago, one’s after-school choices were rather limited. I usually spent my free time [...]
Facing the Future as a Minority
Was the Immigration Act of 1924 Illiberal?
