by John Mancini | Nov 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
There’s been much media coverage of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo this month. The billion-dollar colossus houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts ever assembled including all of King Tut’s burial treasures. Giovanni...
by John Mancini | Nov 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York is a giant step for South Asians and Muslims in America. It is also a victory for Socialism, that failed economic system that has seduced generations of dreamers since Karl Marx. The promise of Socialism is to...
by Rosario Iaconis | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mineola, L.I.: Unless Andrew Cuomo stages a Trumanesque comeback on Nov. 4, Mamdani is poised to become Gotham’s 111th mayor. In addition to hogtying the NYPD and eviscerating the private sector, the neophyte assemblyman will fan the flames of antisemitism with...
by John Mancini | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
There was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about how the various subcultures in the U.S. affect economic success. Maybe there’s nothing new here that common sense doesn’t reveal every day. The bulk of the references in the article were to Thomas...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
On Friday, October 24th, in an event sponsored by Cinema/Chicago in conjunction with the Chicago International Film Festival, director Spike Lee was interviewed by Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, film professor at the University of Chicago and host of “Silent Cinema...
by John Mancini | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The mean-looking guy in front is Emperor Caracalla Among the traits we inherited from our Roman ancestors was a grasp of reality. It’s not always pretty but it has made us a very pragmatic people. We don’t often mince words or suffer fools. It may be...
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