Category: censored opinions
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Boumediene v. Bush: Unanswered Issues and Current Moral Codification
In Boumediene v. Bush, the U.S Supreme Court was faced with a post-colonial issue regarding overseas authority and correlating precedents. Broadly, the question arose—for a third time since Rasul v. Bush (2004) and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)—whether constitutional rights extend to non-sovereign territories under U.S control. More specifically, the case encompassed a question of whether…
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To Stand on the Shoulders of Giants You Must Climb their Legs
The great Coleridge quote (by way of Newton by way of Burton by way of Bernard of Chartes) that we see further because we stand on the shoulders of giants seems to be automatically assumed by the modern mind. We have “evolved” since the Greco Roman era. Even though clearly we are more barbaric. Even…
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Modern Rhetorical Metacriticism
There are several methodologies available for use in the field of modern rhetorical criticism. Using each form and comparing their insights and conclusions against each other will garner an analysis on which is more applicable to the selected artifact chosen for study. This is a criticism on the utility and necessity of the critical styles…
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Dead to Rights : Response to Article Claiming ‘Healthcare is Not a Human Right’
Hey Chad, thanks for the article Healthcare is Not a Human Right. Here’s my response: Dead to Rights. Hope you’re doing swell — looking forward to reading some of your film thoughts very soon. Did you see the Bandersnatch piece by one of our new authors? As I haven’t left a substantive comment on someone else’s…
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13 Reasons Why Not to Watch 13 Reasons Why
One of my students from the Creative Arts Academy, Abigail E. Riebel, wrote this guest post today on 13 Reasons Why. Whether I agree with all of her points is irrelevent: what’s far more interesting is that a highschooler wrote such a reflective piece about such an influential show. That’s what this site’s all about.…
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Weather NYC App : Micrometeorology Keeps Me Dry
Seldom do I review apps because… because. But I’m constantly surprised by how few New Yorkers know of the best Weather NYC app out there. It uses micrometeorology and helps me stay out of the rain. Basically, when we’re under an awning in Midtown or stuck in a subway in Brooklyn and we need to…
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Feminism Definition
Here’s one feminism definition for you to stew over: A feminist is someone who points to the vice of rape as the reason they hate the virtue of chastity.
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The Nuance of the Lust of the Flesh
Once I wondered why the men I respected in my life spoke so often about old and weathered sins and vices that still they struggle through. They talked of pecadillos the way we, as children, talked of a refusal to eat our peas and carrots: as if they’re mortal sins. In this way too, Benjamin…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love America
Film buffs will know I pulled my title from Dr. Strangelove or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” The film is a comedy of errors in which the entire world is summed up in a cowboy who literally cackles and cheers as he rides a nuclear explosive from the heavens down…
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Eugene Peterson and His All Out War on the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Often we hear historians say that the greatest critiques of the church come from the radicals inside her. Eugene Peterson has fit this bill for years, pastoring pastors on how to pastor instead of coddling and enabling them to stay in their addictions to greed and power and graceful lusts and fame. I’m reminded of…
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Good Criticism is Hard
Recently, I had a conversation with my friend and brother Doug Welch about good criticism. Since the conversation, I’ve been meditating on everything that makes good criticism and deep reflection difficult. Doug always pushes me to think harder, broader, deeper, further — if I’ve ever added anything helpful to the critical and reflective world, the seeds of those contributions were…
