My kid – my 31-year-old “kid” – co-directed a movie that, so far, is showing at film festivals in Toronto, Tel Aviv, Seattle and Provincetown. I attended the Seattle premiere last week, saw it twice on the big screen, and was impressed. Is my rave review of Susanne Bartsch: On Top the result of “It’s […]
Read More →Originally published in The Orlando Sentinel, March 26, 2017 For true human equality, you need the white guys. In the big scheme of things, social justice is a war, and equality fights for women or blacks or gays are battles. A marginalized group can demand anything it wants day after day, but if the majority […]
Read More →Somewhere along the way, “funding for education” became synonymous with “giving money to other people.” Public education became a charity, a thing we do for those poor kids who can’t otherwise afford school. Somewhere along the way, we forgot how important a strong public education system is to the future of America. We treat public […]
Read More →Every Christmas movie worth its salt has a single underlying message: The only important thing in life is the way we treat each other. It has Biblical references in the golden rule, and it’s the core concept of anti-bullying campaigns. It’s also the underpinning of any solid society because a how-we-treat-each-other philosophy is the glue […]
Read More →A laser focus on bigots misses the point. Hate drives most of today’s problems. We spend too much time talking as if hate and bigotry are the same thing. Imagine two people: Ida Mae Everton, who just happens to have the first name of my great-grandmother, loves all God’s creatures. She has cats and dogs, […]
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