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By Greg Maresca You don’t have to be a history buff, or a Cold War or Reagan-era enthusiast, to enjoy The Brink of War, which opens nationally on Friday, August 14.
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Alan Greenspan, who served five terms as chair of the Federal Reserve, died on Monday at the age of 100.
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The pre-eminent economic policymaker of his time and a skilled political operator, his market-friendly stances would later come to be associated with destructive financial forces.
From an early age, I’ve interpreted movies as mysterious manifestations of one person’s consciousness. The post The Little Auteurist appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Little Auteurist From an early age, I’ve interpreted movies as mysterious manifestations of one person’s consciousness. Dear readers of TAC: Does anyone else remember the VHS cassette tape of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial that was accented with a horizontal green strip across its top? That I can distinctly recall it confirms both my aged status as a child of the Reagan era—some Googling reveals that the E.T. tape in question seems to have been released in October 1988, when I would have been five years old—and, more significantly, the decades-long presence in my imagination of the movie’s director, Steven Spielberg. I do not intend to present myself as a prodigy, but I can say with some certainty that I would have…Open