Archive for August, 2011

Where did the “Reagan revolution” come from? How did Washington D.C. get transformed from a bastion of moderate-progressive compassionate governance in the post-World War II period into

Assessing modern gay culture, consider that two important components from Stonewall forward were the result of external factors. The first was the explosion of the “sex, drugs and rock and

A new docudrama film in limited release at theaters now throws some important new light on the early 1950′s roots of the so-called “counterculture” that succeeded in a dramatic

My core argument can be summed up like this: (1) Homosexuals are beautiful, (2) we are important, and (3) we must shift our culture’s “center of gravity” away from

“Virtue is rightly-ordered love.” – St. Augustine, “City of God.” The concept of “virtue,” descriptive through history of the most highly-valued human

Pondering the relentless drumbeat sounding out of the Tea Party right wing of the Republicans, demanding no tax hikes, and draconian cuts and austerity in favor of paying down the national debt, I

Occasionally it is instructive to take a question from the audience, so to speak, to help clarify certain points. I present excerpts from thoughtful comments of one reader of this series, followed

It’s hard to imagine a better exhibition of the foolish ineptness of 24-hour news cycle talking heads than during the last few days, when the incredibly wobbly behavior of the stock market

Almost all the gay-authored literature describing the Stonewall era through the end of the AIDS “automatic death sentence” era, from 1969 to 1996 – including compelling writing by