Culture Watch

The images in Real War Stories are as strong and memorable, and sometimes as graphic, as those in its reactionary counterparts.

I am making an exception to trashing public television as an anti-democratic instrument for Bill Moyers. 

These days, more and more workers in all sorts of circumstances are finding it hard to remember why anyone would have ever felt so passionately about a union affiliation.

Danny Duncan Collum 12-01-1987

"Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau is having a hard time in the Reagan era; reality keeps outstripping his wildest flights of satire.

Danny Duncan Collum 11-01-1987

"Freedom of the press belongs to the [person] who owns one."
--A.J. Liebling

Danny Duncan Collum 10-01-1987

Yippee! It's another bicentennial, if your constitution can stand it.

This past spring I went to Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley, again. Like millions of other Americans, I've got a thing about Elvis.

1984 is three years past, and the Brave New World is just 20 minutes into the future. That's where the computer-run and video-tranced world of ABC-TV's "Max Headroom" is located.

It's morning in America. Our long national daydream is over. The worm, so to speak, has turned. The Reagan era is history.

Poised at the brink of a new century, Americans are forging bravely into the past. Nostalgia is the order of the day. All the TV classics of the '50s and '60s are back in style.

At about the time this magazine reaches most subscribers, ABC's 12-hour miniseries "Amerika" will be fouling the airwaves.

The Testimony of the Freedom Movement.

Who is the "public" in public television?

Richard Rohr 12-01-1984

Studying the radical texts of the Gospels.

Dale W. Brown 11-01-1976

Iconoclasm in a World Come of Age

Sharon Gallagher 11-01-1976

The Front has Woody Allen in a semi-serious role about a very serious subject -- the blacklisting that went on in Hollywood in the ‘50s.

Dale W. Brown 8-01-1975

Jurgen Moltmann focuses on a basic theme from his own Lutheran tradition, namely, the theology of the cross, and elucidates its many aspects in typical German style and thoroughness.

Boyd Reese 12-01-1974

Review of Politics for Evangelicals by Paul Henry.

Steve Bisset 11-01-1974

A list of books and journals about nonviolence.

Patty Lyman 11-01-1974

The following list of books can be found in the public libraries of most large cities.