by Bill Dal Cerro | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
In a letter to fellow psychologist Marie Bonaparte (yes, a great grand-niece to the Corsican-born Italian emperor, original family name: Buonaparte), Sigmund Freud famously asked, “What do women want”? Though he never found an answer, he did once write that “women...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Aug 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
As a film purist, I believe movies were made to be seen where they belong – in a movie theater where, on a 60-foot blank white canvas, ghostly images projected in the dark can fully engage our imaginations. Watching a film on a TV monitor, no matter how large, still...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jul 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Anyone who loves science, or who at least pays attention to American popular culture, knows the name Neil deGrasse Tyson. Since the late-1990s, via his lectures, books, and TV shows, Dr. Tyson has surpassed his mentor, Carl Sagan, as our nation’s most well-known...
by Rosario Iaconis | Jun 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Theodore Roosevelt was indeed a flawed, fallible man who embraced white supremacy and harbored prejudices against many ethnic groups. While serving on the U.S. Civil Service Commission, for example, he wrote to his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles: “Monday we dined at the...
by Rosario Iaconis | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Toppling a statue of Christopher Columbus and submerging it in a lake ill serves Virginia and our noble multicultural republic. Moreover, substituting violence for reason does a disservice to the peaceful George Floyd protesters. It also undermines one of America’s...
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