Should capital punishment be abolished or not? Opponents of the death penalty say that executing murderers is the same as murder. Dennis Prager explains what makes that equivalency so deeply and fundamentally flawed.
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Jean Harlow
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Books On My Night Table
Preston Sturges was one of the greatest writer/directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. His scripts are beautifully structured and if you want a master class in comedy dialogue, read his screenplay for The Lady Eve (1941) where con woman Barbara Stanwyck observes about Henry Fonda: “I need him like the ax needs the turkey.”
Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is one of the greatest artists who ever lived. His life is also something of a mystery. Author Daniel Arasse suggests that Vermeer was a revolutionary painter who was attempting to conceptualize a new pictorial space within the classical tradition of art. A fascinating analysis of my favorite artist.
The Charlottesville Lie
Did President Trump call neo-Nazis “very fine people” during a famous press conference following the Charlottesville riots of August 2017? The major media reported that he did. But what if their reporting is wrong? Worse, what if their reporting is wrong and they know it’s wrong? A straight exploration of the facts should reveal the truth. That’s what CNN political analyst Steve Cortes does in this critically important video.
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Humphrey Bogart (b. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, New York City, 1899 – 1957)
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