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Having the Conversation
If there was a list compiled of the world’s current most important thinkers and visionaries then surely US President Donald Trump’s name...
MC
Sep 14, 20187 min read


Once More Unto the Breach
To many people, certainly those who identify themselves as “progressive” in the pro-welfare state, LGBT-rights, Roe vs Wade, race/gender...
MC
Aug 25, 20186 min read


State of the Union
Another year. Another Fourth of July. Just one of many the man has seen. He’s older -- seen more, experienced more. His once thick brush...
MC
Jul 4, 20187 min read


Diversity Rules
There is nothing essentially out of place about seeing a stocky, broad-shouldered, vertically-challenged man sitting in what is...
MC
May 7, 20188 min read


A Star Winks Out
“What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.” - Jean-luc Picard Heroes die, we know that. They are, after all, only...
MC
Mar 19, 20188 min read


Sanity Check
In history, everything old invariably becomes new again. Was this petty, snarling man, so seemingly utterly lacking in presidential...
MC
Jan 22, 20189 min read


According to What?: Ai Wewei Today
Like most years of late, 2017 wound down on a bittersweet note. This website celebrates one full year of existence in which our...
MC
Jan 9, 201814 min read


Becalmed At Home: Eroding Abroad
Almost a year into the Trump presidency, the United States domestically has not gone over a cliff. It's constitution-guaranteed system...
Jeremiah
Nov 28, 201710 min read


May the Force Be With You: Star Wars and Religion
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was no God. Or not, at least, the walking, talking God of the Old and New Testament...
MC
Nov 14, 201710 min read


Rick and Morty: Tears Between Laughs
Contemporary cartoons have a much wider audience then in previous generations and a large part of this demographic expansion is due to...
MC
Oct 27, 201710 min read


Retro Movie Review: Logan
Hollywood likes nothing better than to be stuck in a profitable rut, and history shows that, having stumbled across a money-making genre,...
MC
Oct 11, 20179 min read


The Lessons of History
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana Between Roppongi and Akasaka -- two of the ritziest...
MC
Aug 26, 201717 min read


The Vertical Kampong: Thoughts On SG 52
The air is heavy, not just because this is Singapore and humidity is forever present. Standing fans whirr gallantly, offering fleeting...
MC
Aug 8, 201710 min read


Retro Book Review: A Beautiful Mind
John Nash's life story should not have ended the way it did, on an innocuous, anonymous New Jersey turnpike in 2015. He and his wife,...
MC
Jul 28, 20178 min read


Rage Against the Machine: The Strange Journey of Ai Weiwei
The recent passing of dissident and former 1989 Tianamen Square student leader Liu Xiaobo has arguably left a yawning gap in that the...
MC
Jul 21, 201717 min read


The Persistence of Hope: Vincent Van Gogh
“And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” --1 Corinthians 13:13 As Don McLean sang in 1971,...
MC
Jun 12, 20176 min read


Renaissance Man: Steve Jobs
As of this writing Apple has briefly attained an estimated market valuation of $800 billion USD, easily making it the most valuable...
MC
May 18, 20176 min read


The Fault in Our Stars: Retro Review of 'The Theory of Everything.'
What is it about film awards and biopics about damaged geniuses? Movies like ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ ‘Shine,’ ‘My Left Foot’ ‘Amadeus,’ and...
MC
Mar 26, 20176 min read


Red Sun Rising
Based on external appearances alone, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems like an amiable sort, the kind (to paraphrase Margaret...
MC
Mar 19, 201712 min read
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