Following a vision to change the world can seem easy. The ideal is abstract and, though it may call for personal sacrifice, it can be abandoned when it becomes too challenging. Following a vision that requires change within oneself,... Read More

Since the halcyon days of filmmaking in the forties and early fifties, Hollywood films have become synonymous with vacuous and unimaginative production and direction. Except for a short period from 1968 to roughly 1975, films from the... Read More

What makes A.J. Lewinter run? That’s the question that both American and Russian intelligence agencies ask themselves in this Cold War thriller. While attending an academic conference in Tokyo, American ceramic engineer Lewinter... Read More

What would the United States look like today if Thomas Jefferson’s argument to measure land according to metric units had succeeded? Would road atlases and other maps show the system of squares and grinds that so simply marks the... Read More