In Medias Res

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ]  By the time my youngest brother, Baden, and I arrived at the Spokane Valley Hospital in Washington sta...

Phil Christman, Why Christians Should be Leftists A wonderful, short--and yes, somewhat rambling, but only in the way the best kind of earne...

[Cross-posted to Religious Socialism ] Phil Christman, a writer and lecturer at the University of Michigan, is a committed Protestant Christ...

As always, this is my listing of what I think were the best movies I saw in the past calendar year, not necessarily movies that came out dur...

Last week, on a clear and cold Friday afternoon, I joined a couple of hundred other people to attend, and pay our respects during, the grave...

John Lennon was murdered 45 years ago this evening, on December 8, 1980. The photo attached was taken that afternoon--ghoulishly, but entire...

Double Fantasy is an iconic album, for obvious reasons. Leaving behind Los Angeles, May Pang, the experiments (and exasperation) in the stu...