A British animation that captures the best of Orwell’s “fable” while making it sufficiently subdued for children. There is violence, but it takes place “out of camera,” as it were. Continue reading →

This is the sort of book that makes you go looking for the rest of the author’s works. She’s intelligent, amusing, insightful, and thinks a good bit like me politically and socially. These are apparently magazine and newspaper articles, probably from the OpEd pages, from basically the second term of the Bush administration. The section titles make the point rather well: Continue reading →

George Bernard Shaw wrote it, and some very brilliant BBC actors performed it. One such is my beloved Patrick Stewart, who plays Anthony Anderson, the Presbyterian minister in a small town during the American revolution. The self-proclaimed Devil’s Disciple is young Dick Dudgeon (Mike Gwilym), who returned home for the reading of his father’s will and faced the scorn of his ostentatiously pious mother. Continue reading →