Oh, But They Are

I’m getting old enough to think sometimes about how my kids will remember me when I’m gone. In the 1987 movie Throw Momma From The Train, Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal play Owen, an annoying aspiring writer, and Larry, his writing instructor. For no particular reason, while the two are at Owen’s house, Owen offers

If We Don’t Hold Them Accountable, Who Will?

Steven Spielberg’s 2017 movie, The Post, relates a devastatingly relevant episode in the recurring conflict between the self-interest of corrupt government officials and the freedom of the press. In 1976, I enrolled in journalism school just as the movie All the President’s Men was portraying reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as superheroes for exposing