New Orleans Reading an article in The New Yorker called “A Bug in the System” by Wil S. Hylton got me thinking over the last couple of days. Early in the piece the reporter presented some arresting figures: “Each year, contaminated food sickens forty-eight million Americans, of whom a hundred and twenty-eight thousand are hospitalized, …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Is “American Sniper” an Anti-War Movie?
New Orleans The papers are buzzing about the surprising opening weekend success of Clint Eastwood’s latest movie, “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper, who was also nominated for an Academy Award for his performance.Hollywood is scratching its head as if they had found a new audience in the South and the West for war movies. Quelle …
Post-Ferguson: It’s Not the Tactics, It’s the Troops
New Orleans Historians, celebrities, names in the news, and old warriors of the civil rights movements are being put in the uncomfortable position of being asked by the press as so-called opinion leaders to comment on everything from the movie, Selma, to the tactics of protestors in the post-Ferguson moment of pushback and leap forward …