The” American Dream” escapes definition simply because it doesn’t represent a concrete thing. People, from politicians to historians to regular… Read more The American Dreaming
Category: Essay
Shakespeare y el Imprevisto Probable
Para poder comprender la magnitud de las obras Shakespeareanas, es necesario estar consciente del contexto en que se dieron. El… Read more Shakespeare y el Imprevisto Probable
A Temple of Knowledge
Despite the metal detectors, x-ray machines, and guards at the security checkpoints, the Library of Congress still feels to me… Read more A Temple of Knowledge
From Hollywood to Capitol Hill
28 August, 2010. I look out the window before my airplane lands in Dulles airport, and there it stands: Washington… Read more From Hollywood to Capitol Hill
Memorializing Lincoln & MLK
Lincoln’s figure sits at a throne within a shrine because there’s no better way to honor a president that adapted… Read more Memorializing Lincoln & MLK
Describing a Rose to a Blind Man
Beauty can go beyond sight. For the rose, the first thing to surpass this limit is its scent, a misty… Read more Describing a Rose to a Blind Man
Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints
We live in a “transitional state, where the masses no longer trust the elites and are confused about their values.”[1]… Read more Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints
Hugh Hefner: The Playboy
(co-authored with Dalya Munves, April 2010) Between the restraints of the Flying Forties and the liberality of the Swinging Sixties,… Read more Hugh Hefner: The Playboy
On Barbarism
History is marked by greatness. Ages and periods are coined according to great individuals, great inventions, great ideas, great… Read more On Barbarism
Globalization: Capital Rules
Socialism is not dead, and capitalism is not dying—these two just merged and mutated (not evolved, since evolution implies betterment)… Read more Globalization: Capital Rules
