Do you know that you are a cis-male?” comedian Norm Macdonald asked a flummoxed Stephen Merchant, the co-creator of The Office, nine years ago. Macdonald explained of the peculiar “cis” prefix: “It’s a way of marginalizing a normal person.” At…
On May 21, 2025, two Israeli Embassy staff members were gunned down in cold blood in the heart of Washington, D.C. The shooter, Elias Rodriguez, a self-proclaimed revolutionary and documented member of a far-left extremist group, left behind a manifesto…
Some ten years ago, I openly joined the Culture War. Before then, like Rick in Casablanca, I stuck my neck out for nobody. My former work environment, Hollywood, was falling prey to academia-spawned Marxism, but at a then slow pace….
I have seen Aida many times over the years but none with a set so imaginative and none with “acting singers” who so moved me to tears. The opera fan sits there and just knows that the curtain will rise to…
I can understand Meghan McCain’s criticism of first-term President Trump given the shots he took at her famous father, John McCain. Some of them were well deserved, like his vote saving Obamacare. But Meghan was too smart and patriotic to…
I write to thank all those who have written me to inquire about my situation in light of the Southern California (SoCal) wildfires. Barukh Hashem (Thank G-d), it seems that our region here in Central Orange County has been spared. Pacific…
Cultures change, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. The changes are sometimes positive, sometimes negative, sometimes a little of both. The reasons why they change are multiple. In short, there is no such thing as a cultural template or a cultural iron…
We started 2024 using more pronouns than there are characters in the Chinese logograph system, with the imminent threat of the mandatory electric car, and with half the country trying to convince the other half that Joe Biden was so…
