As already discussed, World History has many moving parts.  Consequently, there is no single “right answer” to when one period […]

  Man’s most primal longing is to feel as though he “belongs”, as though he “matters” in some way, as […]

THE PREDICAMENT: The first paragraph of Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece, The Denial of Death, reads: “In times such as […]

  The debasement of our public discourse has involved the on-going degeneration of our thinking.  This degeneration has lead to […]

Escapism Gone Haywire   When I was young, I loved Nintendo.  I grew up playing Super Mario Bros 1 – […]

Welcome to the 2012 MIBY listing.  Even as we live in a nation where fewer and fewer people have the […]

Big Brother Garbed In Wondrous Raiment:             It might have never occurred to George Orwell how much more dangerous “Big […]

“You know something, Stu?  Politics is just like show business.”  –Ronald Reagan (to Stuart Spencer, of California marketing firm, Spencer-Roberts) […]

  In 1925, a book entitled “The Man Nobody Knows” was published.  It was the roaring 20’s—an era of romanticized […]

In 1323, Pope John XXII declared that anyone who claimed that Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples lived in poverty […]