This Tuesday, August 22nd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Zookeeper’s Wife @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017), based on a true story, is set in 1939, when during the Nazi conquest of Poland the couple who run the Warsaw Zoo turn the ground’s hiding places into…
City
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Welcome to Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Whitewater, a small town, sees occasional turnover from among her public officials, as would any town. Over these years, I’ve seen any number of officials arrive (meaning that any number of others have departed). This is a beautiful town; I’d welcome all the world here. No doubt, when someone arrives, he or she receives all…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, August 16th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: The Salesman
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Wednesday, August 16th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Salesman @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. The film is the last movie in a summer series of foreign films. The Salesman (2016) is dramatic thriller recounting how, “[w]hile both participating in a production of “Death of a Salesman,” a…
City, Politics, Trump
Molly Ball on ‘The Trump Show’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Covering Trump’s recent appearance in West Virginia, Molly Ball writes that “HUNTINGTON, W.V.—Every day brings new drama, but the Trump Show’s themes remain the same. He’s come to tell his people that everyone else is wrong and they are right…. They have come here, more or less, to be lied to: Trump, in his speech,…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, August 8th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Live by Night
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, August 8th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Live by Night @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Live by Night (2017) is a crime drama about a group of “Boston-bred gangsters who set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the…
City, Politics, Trump
When Lions Meow
by JOHN ADAMS •
No one is obligated to think about politics, let alone write about politics. (Indeed, in a more libertarian world, for example, the state would be smaller, and there would be fewer political matters of which to speak and write.) In Whitewater and cities nearby, however, there are more than a few who have public, political…
City, Economics, Economy, Education, Immigration, Trump
Anti-Immigration Measures, Wrong Yet Again
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embed from Getty Images An anti-immigration position is for economics something like a flat-earth position would be for natural science: one may hold it only through either ignorance or disorder. (The ignorance would have to be profound, as even the weakest grasp of economics would incline a rational person to acknowledge the benefits of a…
City, Culture, Politics, Trump, Trump-Russia
The Limits of Cultural Shelter
by JOHN ADAMS •
In difficult times, some will retreat to apolitical, cultural matters. An apolitical approach is not one that I would take, but for others perhaps it seems the best that one can do. Indeed, in Whitewater, I’ve advocated that approach for those who would not take an overt stand on the principal political question of our…
City, Law, Liberty, New Whitewater, Trump
On Transgender Americans
by JOHN ADAMS •
One could write about the recent Twitter statement from Trump that “[a]fter consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military,” but there’s a broader question than military service. To be sure, I believe…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: 20th Century Women
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, July 25th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of 20th Century Women @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. 20th Century Women (2016) is a comedy-drama set in 1979 about a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him in Southern California. Mike Mills directs the…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, July 19th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Silence
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Wednesday, July 19th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Silence (2017) is a historical drama about two 17th-century Portuguese Jesuits who travel to Japan in an attempt to find their mentor, who is reported to have abandoned the faith. Martin Scorsese directs…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 11th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Beauty and the Beast
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, July 11th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Beauty and the Beast @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Beauty and the Beast (2017) is a live-action fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love. Bill Condon directs the two hour, nine-minute film, starring…
Alt-Right, America, City, Liberty, Putin, Russia, Trump
‘What Putin’s team is probably telling him about Trump’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA from 2010 to 2013 and twice acting director, and Samantha Vinograd of the National Security Council staff from 2009 to 2013, speculate from experience on What Putin’s team is probably telling him about Trump: This is a speculative account of a memo that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s national…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, June 27st, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park: Lion
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, June 27th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Lion @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Lion (2016) is the story of Saroo, who “years after he got separated from his family, at a train station in India, and long since adopted by an Australian couple, decides to go…