What is most immediately striking about 12 Years As a Slave is the night and day contrast of the treatment and approach of Africans between the North and the South. The Yankees seamlessly integrate them into their society, allowing them to prosper at their own talents, benefitting society at large. The Dixies, obviously, view them as more productive domesticated animals; high-functioning....

Before entering into the cinder box, and being cast down into the wormy soil with those we surrounded ourselves with when our hearts murmured shedding tears and saying their remembrances, we want those remembrances to be of large statute. We don’t want to be remembered for how we ate apples, or how quirky our personalities were during football season. To have our funeral audience smirk at those....

  House of Cards attempts to portray the contemporary political landscape that situates money and power against one another, and as mediators, vain politicians. And to call these players on the Washington theatrical stage vain is misleading – pathological is a more appropriate word. At the juncture of the decline of preserving the inherited institution of American government, which....