This podcast episode challenges the listener to get personal about war and remembrance. If I know you, I dare you to explicitly express yourself on the topic of the act of war 24 years ago which Leonard Peikoff justly named Black Tuesday.
If I don’t know you, I urge you to listen to this episode and consider doing the same. Americans may not have another quarter century to keep America free from becoming a dictatorship. Don’t let it go. May you remember that black Tuesday in writing, in speech, in art—if only in private.
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Twenty Years After Black Tuesday
“What would happen if an airplane crashed into a water tower?” This was a perennial question I asked as a boy whenever my dad drove past a water tower. I was curious and, when it became clear that no one in the station wagon could or would attempt to provide an answer, I kept asking. On occasion, someone would speculate. Mostly, I was teased for asking what must’ve seemed like an utterly preposterous question.
Murder in Minneapolis
Listen to this episode for my thoughts and questions about the 23 year-old transsexual’s suicidal siege with high-velocity guns at a Catholic school in Minnesota.
Movies: Superman
There’s not enough Superman in Superman. It’s a good movie—a modern film made for today’s audiences and all that this implies. If the comic book hero with his loyalty to truth, justice and the American way, unfortunately a phrase left out of this film by director James Gunn, is to have a future, this movie will be part of the reason. Despite its flaws, there’s plenty to appreciate and, occasionally, admire.
