Feb 2 2010

Environmental Activism in Russia - Different in Kind, or Just Degree?

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov — personally appointed by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin — has ordered the wholesale demolition of houses in a Moscow neighborhood, based upon ambiguous land-title laws dating from the Soviet era; erstwhile residents are simply tossed into the street in subzero temperatures, while bulldozers obliterate their homes, whether “mansion” or “quaint [...]

Sep 22 2009

Darkness at High Noon: the UnAmericanism of an American Icon

A comment to the previous blogpost, That Big Ol’ NEA Scandal… Just Déjà Vu-Du, has taken issue with my characterization of the seminal film High Noon as a deeply unAmerican, even anti-American movie that slanders the American character… at a time when the only form of unAmericanism that was acceptable to the intelligensia in the [...]